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| PAKISTAN: No specs no school |  LAHORE, 1 November 2009 (IRIN) - Like most blind and low-vision children in Pakistan - as well as many with correctable vision - Kaneez Fatima, 10, does not go to school. “She cannot see the blackboard clearly. We do not know why. So her teacher said she could not learn,” Kaneez’s mother, Bushra Bibi, told IRIN.
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| | PAKISTAN: No respite for the hungry poor |  LAHORE, 27 October 2009 (IRIN) - Razia, a widow from Lahore, looks after three daughters under 15 on a monthly income of Rs 5,000 (about US$60) earned by washing clothes, and like many others she is finding it increasingly difficult to feed her family.
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| | INDONESIA: Quake survivors to receive temporary shelters |  JAKARTA, 23 October 2009 (IRIN) - The Indonesian government and aid agencies have begun building temporary shelters for hundreds of thousands of people displaced by last month's earthquake in West Sumatra Province.
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| | PHILIPPINES: Typhoons present "greatest humanitarian challenge in recent history" |  MANILA, 23 October 2009 (IRIN) - Pummelled by back-to-back typhoons and facing another, the Philippines is experiencing its toughest humanitarian challenge in recent history, Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), said on 23 October.
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| | PAKISTAN: Harrowing tales of flight from Waziristan |  PESHAWAR, 22 October 2009 (IRIN) - Many internally displaced persons (IDPs) who have fled South Waziristan tell harrowing tales of rockets hitting roads or houses as they tried to leave areas where Taliban militants are fighting government forces.
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