The study focuses on exploring the new roles as "social-workers" (beyond the formal teaching) that the teachers had to play, as schools were turned into shelters for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Sindh, during flood disasters of 2010, in Pakistan. The findings suggest that during the emergency situations, the teachers were called upon to perform as social workers to respond to the needs of the communities who were affected by the disaster. Given that these roles were new for the teachers, the study participants who were teachers reported some challenges and recommendations for their...