ActionAid Delivering Aid to 500,000 People Displaced by India Flooding
ActionAid India is delivering aid to more than 500,000 people displaced by flooding in the state of Assam.
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After quickly covering evacuees’ immediate needs, workers are concentrating on longer-term assistance like shelter and livelihood assistance.
Nearly every year, monsoon rains hitting India from June until September breach river embankments, inundating the northeastern state. Last year, millions of Assam’s 26 million residents were forced to temporarily abandon their homes.
“Floods in Assam are an annual affair,” said Swapan, a program officer in ActionAid’s Guwahati, Assam office. “Yet, the government's rescue and relief operations are not geared up to reach people in time, resulting in huge losses of property and livestock in addition to loss of human lives.”
By July 8, floodwaters covered about 500 villages and 100,000 acres of cropland.
People immediately sought shelter in schools and colleges, but rising waters soon forced a re-evacuation. Temporary shelters of tarpaulin or galvanized iron are proving inadequate as rain continuously beats down.
ActionAid’s first priority is getting immediate assistance to those trying to escape the floods. An assortment of goods including food, drinking water, hygiene kits and mosquito nets are helping people to cope with floods.
But even as we dispatch first responders, ActionAid assessed the need for more permanent solutions, including disaster risk and climate change risk reduction initiatives.
Please join ActionAid as we work with Assam residents dealing with massive flooding.
