Report From a Pashtun Teen: The Flood
By SHER BANOSher Bano is a 17-year-old Pashtun girl from Pakistan who spent last year as an exchange student in Evanston, Illinois, as part of the Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Program. She is now back in the city of Peshawar in the northwest of Pakistan, and has become a regular contributor to “On the Ground.”
Outside the rain poured nonstop while inside poured my mom’s tears. We had been informed that my grandmother and cousins were stuck on the rooftops of their houses and surrounded by several feet of flood water. We could not be of any help to them as we were on a family picnic in the mountain resort town of Nathia Gali, about 200 miles east of Peshawar, when the north of Pakistan was hit with flooding.
Mohammad Sajjad/Associated Press A young flood survivor walked in search of clean water before the rubble of houses destroyed by heavy floods in Nowshera near Peshawar, Pakistan.
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