Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee gathers with neighborhood leaders in Trinity Gardens final month. Jackson Lee and Rep. Al Inexperienced traveled to Pakistan this week to tour areas affected by excessive floods.
Marie D. De Jesús, Houston Chronicle / Employees photographerU.S. Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee and Al Inexperienced traveled to Pakistan this weekend to fulfill with authorities officers and tour areas affected this summer season by excessive floods.
The Houston representatives, joined by Rep. Tom Suozzi of New York, had been briefed by Pakistani navy rescuers and labored to shore up short-term aid efforts. They met with Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif on Monday.
“So far as the attention might see, I noticed water,” Jackson Lee mentioned. “We noticed individuals nonetheless racing to helicopters to be rescued in addition to met and listened to the boys, girls and kids who skilled the raging lethal waters.”
Monsoons and melting glaciers within the nation’s northern mountains have brought on floods which have killed greater than 1,300 individuals, together with 458 youngsters, in keeping with the Pakistani authorities.
Hundreds of thousands have been displaced, together with an estimated 400,000 pregnant girls within the Sindh province.
Inexperienced mentioned the $30 million that the U.S. has pledged in aid funds “isn’t sufficient.”
“The richer nations of the world should do extra to help the individuals of Pakistan,” he mentioned.
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