Incessant rainfall and the opening up of flood gates in India has caused river embankments to collapse and areas that rarely see floods have been badly affected. The people have had to leave their destroyed mud houses suddenly without being able to save their belongings. ActionAid is supplying emergency aid in Kushtia and Shatkira. The main needs are for safe drinking water, food and shelter, especially for the most vulnerable children and breast-feeding and pregnant women and disabled people. Working with four partner organisations, we are providing food, household items, plastic and polythene sheets, sanitary towels and latrines and tubewells.
Saving lives is our first priority.
Many of the poor families are also having to sell their animals to survive before these die of starvation, so we are supplying fodder.