With support from Blythswood, Pakistan Sunday School Ministry provided food packages to more than 300 families displaced by monsoon floods in the Sialkot region of Punjab, Pakistan. Each package was carefully put together to sustain a family for about a month, containing rice, flour, cooking oil, sugar, tea, lentils, chickpeas, spices and powdered milk.

The packages included hygiene essentials and small snacks for children. “Even in disaster, a taste of normalcy brings comfort,” says Adnan Sandhu. “Our team found families sitting under the open sky, having lost everything to the flood waters.

“As the packages were distributed, mothers wept with relief, children opened the snack packs with laughter and fathers expressed heartfelt gratitude for being able to feed their families again.”

One such is Mushtaq Masih, who lives with his wife and three children. “When the floods came, everything we had was swept away in a single night,” he says. The fields we had tended for months, waiting for the harvest, disappeared. Our only source of food and income was gone.”

“When the team arrived with food packages, it was as if God Himself had remembered us in our pain. My wife could prepare meals for our children. Seeing them eat after so many days of hunger brought tears to my eyes.”

Mushtaq Masih received food sufficient to feed his family for a month.