I understand your question to be with regard to our open letter and the request to have the government aid be at $50 million as a relief fund that all organizations will be able to access. The reason we came to that number was that the previous 2010 floods were seen at $33 million, matched by Canadians who were looking to help, along with the government. This current flood is unprecedented. We see from international reports that they're estimating $10 billion in damages, so $50 million would just scratch the surface in being able to provide Pakistan with the help they need with rehabilitation over the next two to three years.
As my peer Rema just mentioned, we're looking at health effects. We're looking at outbreaks of malaria. We're looking at the destruction of homes and schools and the displacement of refugees. To our understanding, it's going to take much longer. Coupled with inflation, rising fuel costs and the rising cost of food, it's becoming increasingly difficult, even for aid organizations, to be able to source food for some of our programs.
That's really where our community of civil society organizations has come together to say that the least Canada could do is put together a fund of at least $50 million. That's backed by a lot of international reports.