The other day I wrote of the flooding in India from the extra heavy monsoon rains, and the collapse of a building that killed 12.

But that story doesn’t even broach the magnitude of the problem:

1,200 Dead from Monsoon Rains in Bangladesh, India, Nepal

Around 41 million people have been affected by flooding and landslides.

According to the United Nations, around 41 million people have been affected by flooding and landslides that have ensued due to the monsoon across the subcontinent. They issued this estimation on August 24, which was before the brunt of the rains slammed Mumbai, India’s financial capital. As of Thursday, the rain and flooding is affecting Karachi, Pakistan’s most populous city, local sources have confirmed to weather.com. Eight people are cofirmed dead thus far as a direct result of the flooding.

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The floods damaged 18,000 schools across the entire south Asia, which in turn has left approximately 1.8 million children unable to attend indefinitely.