Christian NGOs Helping Millions of Flood Victims in South Asia
ByNEW DELHI – Christian organizations are doing their best to help the victims of South Asia’s fierce monsoon flooding, which has claimed more than 1,000 lives and left more than 20 million people homeless and displaced.
Official reports have claimed that more than 12 million people in India, 6 million in Bangladesh and 750,000 in Nepal are affected, and face severe food shortages and vulnerability to water-borne diseases.
According to the latest figures reported by Agence France-Presse, the number of people killed nationwide in the annual monsoon rains as of Sunday rose to at least 1,039.
Christian organizations like Tearfund, World Vision, Christian Aid, Evangelical Fellowship of India Commission on Relief (EFICOR), Canadian Food for the Hunger International and their partners in various states and regions are trying their best to reach to the victims.
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