As militants have been actively challenging the authority of the Pakistani Government, the Pakistan Army has launched a counter offensive.

This has forced people living in these areas to flee to safer places, where the government has established camps in order to accommodate the refugees. Hundreds of thousands are temporarily residing in extremely basic camps, waiting for support to meet their daily basic needs. The displacement figure is now over 2,000,000 people.

Our team, together with our relief and development partner organisation, has visited four of these camps to try to meet some of these displaced people, assess their needs, and attempt to work out how they might provide relief for their immediate needs in a practical way.

The four different camps house 3,336 families, approximately 21,105 people. Two of the camps have been established by a church specifically to look after Christian refugees.

These people ran from their houses to these camps, when forces lifted the curfew in the region. They were unable to bring much in the way of basic supplies with them.  Our teams would like to help them by providing: - food parcels, clean water containers and bedding and other essential items.

An appeal has been launched for these internally displaced people; we hope that our response will show God's love to those needy people in Pakistan.