Ethiopia’s Ambassador delivers humanitarian aid to flood-affected families in Pakistan

Addis Ababa, October 17, 2022 (FBC) – Jemal Beker, Ethiopia’s Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, visited flood victims in Sindh Province’s Tent City District and provided basic necessities like food, medicine, shelter, and non-food items to over 8,000 people there.

The Ambassador expressed his sadness and pain at the thought that Pakistan endured during the disaster.

“I look into their faces and eyes because I am old enough to comprehend the agony and suffering they are undergoing for the reasons they are not part of it,” he said after visiting the victims.

“I have noticed one thing: the Pakistani people have strong and solid hearts and a growing hope to survive, revive, and recover, and they eagerly wait for their return to their place”, Ambassador Jemal added.

The ambassador urged the international community to step up support for flood victims after recognizing that Pakistan cannot handle the scenarios caused by flooding on its own.

For reasons where its contribution is minimal but it suffers the most, Pakistan has become the epicenter of climate change disasters, he said.

“It is crucial for developed countries to provide developing countries like Pakistan with access to climate finance, technology, and capacity building for mitigating and adapting to mechanisms that help create a resilient economy”, Amb. Jemal stressed.

In order to achieve this, he said, the effort to raise money to rescue, recover, rebuild, and reconstruct the country as well as to ensure justice must be extended and intensified.

The government of Ethiopia and its people, he said, “will stand in solidarity and share the pain and suffering with their brotherly people in Pakistan at this time of agony.”

On the other hand, Ambassador Jemal Beker had a fruitful conversation with the management of Tent City, elders, and religious figures that enabled him to comprehend the situation there and the alarming circumstances that require the attention of the entire international community.

The ambassador, along with other officials, distributed basic foods, medicine, shelter, water, biscuits, and toys to the children.

As a middle-aged man, among the crowd said, “Ethiopia-Pakistan” zindabad.