Nadia Raza follows her passions — for fashion, food, and helping

Nadia Raza was visiting family in Pakistan this summer when the floods came.“We didn’t even know. I woke up one morning and I had text messages and Facebook messages from the entire Altamont community,” said Raza who owns a Pakistani restaurant in the village.Heavier monsoon rains and melting glaciers combined to put half of Pakistan under water, affecting 33 million people and causing losses of over $40 billion.“We woke up watching the news and realizing that a third of the country was wiped away …,” Raza says in this week’s Enterprise podcast. “We were seeing millions, millions of people had become homeless, lost their homes, lost their lives.”Raza’s family, living in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, were safe. But news videos brought the horror into their homes.“Flocks of people just walking in these big bodies of water … and the one guy I remember saying, you know, we’ve been walking for ten, 12 hours … and one of the kids is bound to get tired,” said Raza, describing the news clips. “And I’m thinking in my head, ‘Oh, my God, how are they going to get through this? You know, if somebody gets tired and there’s water all the way to their knees, how are they going to sleep?’”Raza contacted The Enterprise in hopes of raising public awareness about the need for aid. “I don’t think that it’s getting the amount of publicity and the amount of help that they should be getting,” she said.Read the full story at https://altamontenterprise.com/09292022/nadia-raza-follows-her-passions-fashion-pakistani-food-and-helping-after-her-homeland-was Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.