Pakistan - IOM has supplied shelter repair kits to 390 families in the remote and restive Tirah Valley in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Pakistan.

With support from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), vulnerable families affected during last year’s clashes have been given building materials to repair their shelters before the full onset of winter.

Over 960,000 people from the Tirah Valley were displaced during 2013; one of a series of mass displacements in FATA since 2008.  Families returning to the area in recent months have found widespread destruction of their properties and the area’s infrastructure.

A quarter of all houses in Tirah have been completely destroyed and almost half of them have lost their roofs since the most recent conflict began in March 2013. A recent assessment conducted by the government and humanitarian partners found that up to 50 per cent of the population has been living in makeshift shelters.

The kits that IOM is distributing include items such as girders, brick roofing tiles, plastic sheets, poles, doors and windows.

“The material from the IOM shelter kit was vital to rebuild my home and provide safe accommodation for my family,” said Ishfaq Khan, who lives in Sherdara village and has an extended family of 18. 

IOM previously supported the displaced population of Tirah Valley by distributing non-food winterization relief items from September 2013 to February 2014, assisting a total of 5,602 families.

For more information, please contact

Ammarah Mubarak

IOM Pakistan

Tel: +92 51 230 7841

Email: amubarak@iom.int