News - Emergency assistance to Gujarat News Emergency assistance to Gujarat CMS has sent two disaster relief donations of 1,000 and 4,000 to the Rt Rev V M Malaviya, Bishop of Gujarat, and the Gujarat Diocesan Council. The diocese will use the money for the immediate relief of families in its care and for reconstruction in the wake of the earthquake that hit the area on Friday 26 January 2001. Some of the villages and small towns are totally destroyed. It is very difficult to say how many people have died but the casualty total is certainly very high. Those who have survived are left with nothing.
People are fearful, anxious and disappointed.
In Ahmedabad about 100 high-rise buildings have been damaged. People are staying outside the flats, either on roads or on open ground. Many lost their homes. It is a miracle that all the buildings surrounding our church in Gandhidham collapsed but the church and parsonage survived. In Bhuj the Church was damaged.