After the Floods: How One Woman's Refusal to Go to the City Rebuilt One Village

Byline: Cheree Franco KARACHI -- The village of Jatti is blessed, at least in some regards. Out of 27 families, nobody drowned in the flood. And now a long lost nearly native son, Martin Van Camp, has come from Belgium, cheque book in hand, to build them permanent houses - houses that, unlike their original mud and wood homes, will withstand the raging waters, should they come again. And though they can't explicitly tell him in any tongue he understands, the people of Jatti are hopeful, grateful and eager to rebuild their lives.