Today’s update to yesterday’s Cyclone Aila blog…this is an excerpt from a report filed by our field operations director, Niraj Agrawal:
“80% of our families [in the area the staff visited] have been affected and amongst them 60% families have lost their homes. Families are still living in camps/flood centres in the night because of the fear of accidents due to wall collapses and snakes and rodents. Families are still wearing the same clothes since Monday. Families are however spending most of the morning time in front of their lost/damaged homes feeling very emotional and attached to their land and damaged house. [italics added by me] Food grains, tarpulins have been purchased locally.”
You can picture this hopelessness and anguish pretty clearly from this description. I’m sure the Children International staff presence helps to provide some comfort…NO ONE wants to face something like this alone!
“80% of our families [in the area the staff visited] have been affected and amongst them 60% families have lost their homes. Families are still living in camps/flood centres in the night because of the fear of accidents due to wall collapses and snakes and rodents. Families are still wearing the same clothes since Monday. Families are however spending most of the morning time in front of their lost/damaged homes feeling very emotional and attached to their land and damaged house. [italics added by me] Food grains, tarpulins have been purchased locally.”
You can picture this hopelessness and anguish pretty clearly from this description. I’m sure the Children International staff presence helps to provide some comfort…NO ONE wants to face something like this alone!
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