As record-breaking flooding continues to devastate Pakistan, leaving more than 1,250 dead and affecting at least 35 million people, members of the Pakistani diaspora in New York City are rallying their neighbors to help.
“There’s a unity here,” said Fareeha Haq, a community worker in Little Pakistan, the neighborhood in South Brooklyn that is home to one of the largest Pakistani populations in the US. The roughly mile-long district lined with mosques, halal grocers and restaurants remains intimately connected to Pakistan: “You can walk out in your traditional clothes and you don’t look awkward. You can get everything you want that would do in Pakistan – there’s a guy who sells sugarcane juice, just like home,” said Haq.
