Church Auxiliary for Social Action (CASA) has been in the service of people of India for the last 61 years. With its long experience of disaster management, it didn’t take much time for CASA to intervene and provide support to the victims of the devastating Kosi flood that displaced millions of people from the northern districts in Bihar.
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Flood has affected the education of children very badly, that children not only lost opportunity to attend classes for the last 25 days, but also all the education materials.
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I came with an apprehension that there will be epidemic outbreak, where I may have to handle many complex cases in the flood relief camps; but I am very much impressed with the way flood victims have been taken care by CASA staff and volunteers says Dr Saday Sinha from Padhar Hospital in Madhya Pradesh, who leads the Healthcare team in various relief Camps run by CASA.
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According to Govt records, at least 3 million people in Bihar went homeless and are displaced after the Kosi floods. In the worst affected Koshi Division, (Supaul, Madhepura and Saharsa) there are 216 camps that have accommodated 154505 people (as per the records at the Commissioner’s office, Koshi Division, updated on 10th Sept). Where are the rest of over 1 million people in this division? Where do they live and how will they sustain their life before they could go back to their villages?
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In Mirzawa CASA relief Camp, among 450 families with 2200 members, you will find Muslims fast and pray preparing for the Ram Zan, and Hindus observing their regular religious practices and still all living in peace and harmony and eating together from the community kitchen. Shri. Siya Ram Das the Hindu religious leader recollects that, ‘even before the floods in the village Mirzawa, there was good relationship between Muslims and Hindus and now in this camp, our relationship has bonded more and brought us together’. The same is the observation of Muhammad Mustafa Anzari.
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Pramod Ram (30) and Poonam Devi (26) with their children Subhash Ram (5) and Suman Ram (2.5) had to painfully say goodbye to their loving daughter Kavita (4), who was gulped by the thirsty Kosi that evening when the family was preparing to flee to a safer place.
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Ashok Paswas was in Punjab, when he got the shocking news of flood from his Bother- in – law, Prabhu Paswan. ‘I called Ashok to tell him that his wife and children are safe and no whereabouts of his sisters and brother and their families’ says Prabhu. When Ashok reached Bihar he wanted to rush to Chattapur village in Supaul district, where his sisters lived. I walked and swam to reach a place few kilometres away from Chatapur only to see that Kosi has taken its new course over Chattapur and many other villages, leaving no sign of life; my sisters and brother also had four children each like me, I don’t know what happened to them?’ mourns Ashok.
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