'There was so much water that I initially thought I was looking at a lake, but then I saw the roofs of drowned houses.' Mashaal Saeed visited Pakistan after massive floods displaced 33 million people. She spoke to Maclean's about what she saw:
“We quickly went from driving on dusty, dirt roads in a scorched, dry area to being completely surrounded by water.”
As we pulled into a town in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which was heavily affected by flooding, my brain could not process what I was seeing. We quickly went from driving on dusty, dirt roads in a scorched, dry area to being completely surrounded by water. I saw skeletons of buildings that were once hotels and schools that had quite literally been washed away in the storms.
But despite the unlivable, devastating conditions I witnessed, the people we met were nonetheless eager to welcome us in and show us what remained of their homes. That was an emotional experience for me, because the community really let us in and shared their feelings openly.
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