Human Interest Stories CASA Staff – ‘Happy to be in the field’
| 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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| CASA Staff – ‘Happy to be in the field’ |
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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. ‘We risked our life to reach the worst flood hit districts, Madhepura and Supaul to spearhead the relief work. We placed rescued people in our relief camps and we are already feeding nutritional food for 10,000 people twice a day. This programme will continue at least for 45 days, when people could to go back to their native villages’, says the Chief Zonal Officer (west), KV Thomas. Feeding 10,000 people twice a day, provide clothing, make safe drinking water available, ensure communal harmony and help people maintain their health is all challenge in such an emergency situation and CASA team is successfully facilitating this for the last ten days in four camps. ‘The acute poverty in Bihar cannot be compared with poverty else where; people don’t have any savings or any other support to come back to normal life and this time the flood has pushed them to further crisis’ remarks Anoop, who has been serving people through CASA for the last 35 years. The education system in these districts are also very poor observes Selvin a staff from Southern Zone. Two major relief camps are placed on the flooded Buthni river bank in Supaul dist. ‘Making food available in open camps surrounded by floods with no proper roads to reach the camps is close to impossibility; but we are managing’, says Alok Ghosh, who coordinates relief work in Mirzawa pool and Bhutni Bandh in Supaul Dist. ‘Uncertainty on the duration of the camp days and the time required to rehabilitate the victims is a challenge, where people are already looking forward to return to their villages but whereas the water level has not gone down; it may take more than six months before they are rehabilitated in their villages’ warns Nirmal who heads CASA’s emergency service. All the 20 staff who are coordinating the relief work in two districts unite their voice to say ‘even in this crisis situation with lots of challenges we manage the relief work and we are happy to be in the field’.
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