Help flood devastation recovery in Odisha, India

“May- June-2021 is the dry period in Odisha when the community has no waged employment, so we took this opportunity to help them recover the community further following the floods and to supply rations that have been essential during the second wave of coronavirus. 

We have reached 7500 people of Dalit background and other communities outside of the caste system. The expressed need from community themselves is there for immediate relief, livelihood restoration, agriculture restoration and disaster resiliency. We have worked hard with the community to revive community ponds.  

Despite the flooding, because of drastic weather change, the area will face acute water scarcity during the summer months. There was no water in community pond on which the poor villages depend heavily. The tube wells have dried up. There is problem of drinking water as well as water for cattles. Thus there is a need of reviving the community ponds in order to increase its water retention capacity and to charge the ground water level.”

Our partners in Odisha tell us that it’s been positive to engage the community to build this resiliency, as usually men migrate for difficult low paid work in the cities, and this has been affected by the coronavirus. Our partners want to support livelihoods and sustainability to mean that this migration is no longer needed on such a scale and that women are not left behind struggling to face the problems in their communities alone.

Thank you for your support, it is reaching communities facing the double hardship of the pandemic and environmental disaster.