Now in response to all of this. oi teams have been essentially on the ground. this charity has been around since 1993 born at the balkans crisis so we were born out of emergency relief work and we ve been doing that for nearly 30 years so pakistan is one of the countries where we have extensive project staff and volunteers around the country so when these monsoon rains began over a month ago our teams were already actively on the ground distributing emergency aid in the form of cooked food, water, tents, setting up medical camps and of course we hope to help with reconstructing homes but, sadly, what we thought were the seasonal monsoon veins have just continued to. the rain hasjust continued, sadly, and now we re already hearing that over 33 million people in pakistan are being affected by the floods and that makes up 15% of the population so it s incredibly desperate news on our teams are reporting even on the ground now that the veins continue to fall and so we are in areas like kh