Our villages have been flattened. There is no ration and no water. The roads near Bhuj are full of people, wandering around and looking for food, clothes, medicines and the much needed tarpaulins. Piles of clothes have been dumped along the main roads for the survivors. But they need far more.
Villagers even become so frustrated that they loot trucks carrying relief material.
An estimated 300,000 people are rendered homeless. ACT member CASA has gone to interior villages, where the government provides only little and which are far away from the international help pouring in. The village of Fadsar, about 200 kilometers south of Bhuj in Jamnagar district is too far away to to reach the main supplying lines on foot. People there have to wait for relief coming in. The village is totally flattened, people have to live outside.