Relief and development organizations in India continue to be overwhelmed by the breadth of the disaster and work to be done, said Basant Mohanty, director of CARE programs in Orissa. CARE is distributing rice seed to the neediest families so they can continue replanting crops. CARE was the first organization to reach many of those survivors, assisting with food, shelter and medicine. CARE was positioned to launch a strong emergency response because of its ongoing programs to help people become self-reliant. Similar programs to build self-reliance are in place today, supplemented by continuing crisis assistance.
New programs look to the future.
CARE is helping to build raised, concrete storm shelters and organizing new early warning and emergency-response networks. CARE programs are designed to lessen the impact of natural disasters, particularly ones of the magnitude of Black Friday, October 29, the day the storm began to strike. It violently swept village after village into oblivion. Boat building in Orissa continues, returning fishermen to the water and restoring the transportation and commerce networks. The unnamed tropical supercyclone was designated TC05B by meteorologists.