"I am a tractor driver. I fell off the tractor and this incident broke my legs, and that's how I became disabled. Now I cannot work or earn my daily wages. I had stored 8 to 10 sacks of wheat, but they also drowned in the floodwater. When the water came, I was unable to do anything for my family. I could only watch and make dua." Muhammad Yousaf said.
When the flood came, Muhammad Yousaf watched the water rise from his wheelchair; disabled and unable to walk, he could not save anything. Then the neighbors lifted his chair. His wife carried the baby. They took their ID cards and a few clothes in a plastic bag. Everything else was left to the flood. "We left with nothing. The house fell behind us. A father should carry his child. I could not carry even one. That pain sits in my chest," he whispered.
By morning, their home was a broken wall and a muddy pool. The wheat they had saved, which was the source of their income, got soaked, spoiled, and floated away with the flood. For Muhammad Yousaf, even simple things became hard. Every night, they have to find a place to sleep. Days felt heavy. He worried about food, medicine, and safety.
During the flood crisis, Al Mustafa Welfare Trust reached out to Muhammad Yousaf and his family, who then took shelter in a tent settlement. It was not home, but it provided safety and dryness.
Volunteers met them at the entrance with calm voices and quick hands. They gave a ration pack of flour, pulses, oil, sugar, tea, and clean drinking water. A medical camp visited the settlement. The nurse checked the children's fever and gave oral rehydration salts. The doctor cleaned the small cuts on Yousaf's hands.
"The doctor told me, 'You are not alone here.' Those words fixed half my fear," he said Life did not become perfect. But it became possible.
With regular rations, the family did not worry about the next meal. The water point meant the children did not have to drink dirty water.
Volunteers listened to him with patience. They wrote down his needs. They promised to return, and they did. Each visit brought something small but important: a groundsheet to keep the tent dry, a lantern for the dark hours, a check-up for the youngest child.
