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WORST CITY - Faisalabad, Pakistan |
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Faisalabad, Pakistan
Population:
About 3 million
or none.
Worst Feature:
The market. Built in the shape of a union jack with a statue of Queen
Victoria as a centre piece, it has the best selection of textiles you will
find anywhere.
Best Feature:
Open sewers everywhere, needing
jumping skills from the whole population.
I say that because I’ve not yet found anyone who admits to coming from
there. It was built in the 19th century by Mr Lyle of Tate and Lyle the
sugar people. Showing true modesty he named it Lylepur. Everyone who lives
there is only staying part-time. They all claim to live somewhere else,
usually on a family farm a few miles away. You need to be a few miles away
to avoid the smell where the English cricket team arrived and immediately
left for Lahore without even putting on their whites.
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We had planned to show a
picture of an open sewer in Faisalabad, Pakistan but decided you'd prefer to
see super model Uma Thurman in her sexy fish net stockings . . . |
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. . . but we had to show you the shocking state
of the children's playground in Faisalabad |
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Help children in Pakistan with
SOS Children
Pakistan was born out of the
partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947 and has faced both domestic
political upheavals and regional confrontations. Created to meet the demands
of Indian Muslims for their own homeland, Pakistan was originally in two
parts. The east wing - present-day Bangladesh - is on the Bay of Bengal
bordering India and Burma and the west wing - present-day Pakistan -
stretches from the Himalayas down to the Arabian Sea. The break-up of the
two wings came in 1971 when the predominantly Bengali-speaking east wing
seceded with help from India.
Nearly one third of the country's 140 million people live in absolute
poverty. Girls face greater risks to survival, are more subject to violence
and abuse, and have less access to education, proper nutrition and health
services.
The charity began working in Pakistan in 1977 when the first community was
built in Lahore. Today, this SOS Children's community is considered a model
for modern child care in Pakistan. It has sixteen family houses and a youth
house for the older children where they can take their first guided steps
towards independence. Despite concerted efforts by the government, the
illiteracy rate in Pakistan remains high at 60 per cent, and in 1989 an SOS
School for 1500 nursery, primary and secondary school pupils was opened at
Lahore. An SOS Medical Centre provides dental treatment for over 1000
patients a year from the local community.
SOS Children
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