Human Interest Stories Kosi swallowed our 4 year old Kavita
| CASA contributes to the Himachal Pradesh Dist.Disaster Management Plan, Kullu |
We are pleased to inform you that CASA has substantially contributed to the recently published District Disaster Management plan jointly prepared by Kullu District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), Himachal Pradesh . To read the said document please click here or on the Himachal Pradesh Government website http://hpkullu.nic.in/disaster/DDMP-2011.pdf . In the document you can see the contribution of our apex PAT unit CSK (Chetna Samiti Kullu) in Kullu, local CASA unit and Mountain Forum Himalayas (an effort of CASA in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand) in preparing this district disaster management plan and a separate chapter dedicated to CASA’s PROPOSAL OF DISASTER YOUTH VOLUNTEER on page 197. You can also see Chapter – 6.3, Resource plan, Page – 40-42, where special emphasis has been given in emergency situations, to adhere to the principles of “DO NO HARM’, which is a key approach of CASA’s Local Capacities for Peace (LCP).
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| Kosi swallowed our 4 year old Kavita |
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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. In Mojma village in Jeerva Madheli panchayat in Sankarpur block in Madhepura, when the floods hit their home, Pramod and Poonam tried to locate all the valuables in their home before they escape to rescue their life. When they were busy preparing for a run off, in a fraction of second, Kosy swallowed the little Kavita. ‘She was too small to resist the hastening river’ laments Pramod. Poonam Devi, while struggling to reconcile with the reality of her loving daughters death, is struggling hard to help Subhash reconcile with water. She says that ‘Subhash, who witnessed the death of his sister, is so afraid of water that he doesn’t want to see water or return home’. Pramod – Poonam family lives in CASA’s relief camp in Bhelwa. CASA staff and volunteers help families with such painful experience, reconcile with life to begin their life a new. Kavita’s parents are here to mourn and tell the awful end of their daughter to the world; Kosi cruelly carried away many families were none is left to mourn the death or report to the world.
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