This summer’s destructive floods have left 21 million Pakistanis in desperate need of help weeks after flooding peaked, and the United Nations is still scrambling for resources to deliver life-critical aid to even half that number. As acting head of the UN humanitarian agency’s work in Pakistan, Ruth Mukwana has spent recent days traveling through washed-out provinces of Sindh and Balochistan. The highways are filled with children and mostly women living in makeshift tents without access to clean water, appropriate nutrition or sanitation. “These communities really have not created the climate crisis, and yet they’re the ones bearing the brunt of it,” says Mukwana in an interview. Aid organizations will work for months and years to help Pakistanis recover. But that support will be temporary in nature, […]