Pakistan: Student turns tour guide to Sindh CM in ‘tent city’ for flood victims

Karachi: A student turned a tour guide to Sindh Chief Minister as he visited a makeshift “tent city” set up to house thousands of flood victims in Umerkot.

For the last three days Syed Murad Ali Shah has been visiting the flood-affected areas in the province and each day a distinctive feature of the visits was his interaction with students.

In Umerkot, he visited the ‘tent city’ where over 2,000 tents have been providing shelter to the victims.

The student had a very friendly interaction with the CM as both laughed and continued with their banter throughout the visit. The CM told his young guide that after meeting him he felt nostalgic about his own school days.

The CM thanked the Australian non-governmental organisation for providing tents for the flood victims in Umerkot.

He said the tent city had been providing shelter to 8,000 to 10,000 victims belonging to Umerkot, Thar, Badin, Sanghar, Mirpurkas and adjoining calamity-hit areas.

A day earlier, while visiting the affected areas in Thatta district, the CM especially got down from his vehicle after he saw students playing near the road.

He interacted with the students and asked them to take him to their school. Shah inspected classrooms at the school, sat with students and listened to their rhymes.

The students complained to the CM that their school had no electricity. Shah ordered the installation of solar panels to light up the school.

He promised the students that he would visit their school again.

While in Matiari, he visited a makeshift Madrasa (religious seminary) in a tent where he interacted with the students learning the Holy Quran. The CM appreciated their teacher for using a tent to make the homeless families learn Quran.

During his visits, he also took the mobile phone number of a flood victim at each of the temporary shelters so that he could personally interact with them later to know about relief and rehabilitation activities.