The Latest on how your gifts are making a difference. Moving into the villages the destruction is more apparent. The people are poor and rural and have an almost fatalistic worldview when we approached them. They have already been through one cyclone. This is the next disaster.
Time moves on and they are long suffering.
Hard for urban folk like us to comprehend, as they sit in front of almost completely destroyed structures. There is virtually no approach road to this community and as one hurtles through the dust, we wonder how women in labor would ever make it to a hospital in time, and even if they did, the rocky terrain would probably kill them before they could get help. Remote, remote, remote. The biggest request here was for tents, food and blankets, which have been adequately supplied by our relief team. A 'Community Kitchen' too has been set up to provide day to day meals.