What Is the Government Saying It's Going to Do for Flood Victims?

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All the mud-baked homes in their village, Chokijamali, had been washed away. Mariam Jamali was seven years old when the 2010 floods took place. She's 19 now. Her grandmother every day, she asks her when they're going back. And there's no going back because the home no longer exists.

After catastrophic flooding, Pakistani people are demanding better disaster management from their government. Their government wants reparations from wealthy countries.

This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.

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