Will I see my Husband again?

When Kosi river flushed Lalitgram, it was not the flood water that shook Meena and her three children; furious Kosi swallowed her husband the loving father of these three children. Pankaj who went outside their home that night never came back. Meena Gathu (29), with her three children, is at a loss at Patna Railway Station, where she reached yesterday after spending 8 days of starvation at her stranded village Lalitgram in Saharsa district. Meena’s children who are seven, four and one are yet to understand the tragedy that has stuck their life.

Asked why she opted to reach Patna she says, ‘I just followed the crowd; I saw many people moving in groups and I also followed and boarded a train to Patna from Saharsa, now I don’t know where to go with my 3 small children’. Meena prefers to go back to her village even if she has to wait for few months. Her eyes were brightened to know the facility of temporary shelters and food that would be provided to sustain their life until the water level goes down.
 
CASA has started feeding programme in four relief centres in Madhepura and Sopaul Districts, which has been severely affected and where between 2.5 to3 million people have gone homeless. CASA would be setting up transit shelters for the Flood victims shortly. Meena and her family can be accommodated for the time being in one these camps. Your support will help people like Meena and her children to sustain their life. With her faded sound Meena asked ‘will I see my husband again'?