NGOs in India, Bangladesh and Nepal gear up for flood crisis
More than 150 people have died and 20 million have been displaced from heavy floods in south Asia. Reports estimate more than 12 million people in India, 5.5 million in Bangladesh and 750,000 in Nepal are affected, and face severe food shortages and vulnerability to water-bourne disease.
Regional NGOs, backed by international prtners such as Tearfund and Christian Aid, are providing communities in India with shelter, food, water and medical supplies.
Government relief efforts are also targeting those in Bangladesh but food is scarce. In Nepal devastating landslides and floods have hit the southern part of the country.
Floods, earthquakes and cyclones regularly batter India, so NGOs are experienced at responding to such disasters. This monsoon season, Tearfund. the UK-based evangelical churches' agency, says its partners have been able to respond immediately to the floods.
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The Discipleship Centre (DC) is running disaster risk reduction projects in five villages in the state of Orissa. These five villages have been severely affected by floods but there have been no deaths.
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