Pregnant women seek safety from the floods that have devastated eastern Pakistan in a converted classroom that has been turned into a temporary relief camp. Their bodies hurt, their eyes are heavy with fatigue, and they are silently depressed.
Women in Chung, a community on the outskirts of Lahore, have limited access to sanitary pads and basic medications, including care for pregnant women, while they wait for the flood that engulfed their homes to subside.
19-year-old Shumaila Riaz, who is seven months along in her pregnancy, has been suffering from pregnancy cramps for the last four days in the rescue camp.
“I am not even sure about my own future right now, but I wanted to consider the child I would have.
