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KAILALI,
18 August: Dhansara Dhungana has been
living in a temporary camp in Bhajani Village Development
Committee-3 since the flood displaced her in late
July. She is a resident of Krishnanagar, which is
also located in Bhajani.
Her
family was compelled to leave for a safer place when
the swelling Kadha River submerged her house. Well,
they left their house in search of a safer pasture
only to find that they are not so safe here. They
took refuge in this temporary camp, which itself is
precarious. Her father, mother, sister and brothers
are huddled inside a ramshackle hut that cannot even
protect them from rain and wind.
“Seeing
the rising water level in our village, we set off
for a safer place. My parents carried my brothers.
It took us three hours by boat to reach this place.
We could not take any thing from our house. Food grain,
clothes and utensils are all lying there,” she
says with a tinge of regret. |
Dhansara Dhungana
is seen in the picture with her
three-year-old brother The displaced are living in
a
makeshift shelter in Kailali.
©LWF/DWS Nepal/Gopal Dahal
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Dhansara does not know her age. She looks like a ten-year-old.
Her brother, who is accompanying her in the hut, is around
three years old. He is playing with an empty plate. Both
of his legs are polio-stricken.
An
acute food crisis rules the camp. ACT/LWF Nepal and other
humanitarian agencies have supplied food to sustain them only
for a few days.
LWF
Nepal, with support from the ACT International, distributed
food items to 350 families in Kailali, a far-west district
of Nepal.
What
will happen to them after the relief agencies retreat? The
flood survivors are without proper clothes, not to mention
bedding. Children who are supposed to eat four or five times
a day are relying on plain beaten rice and cooked rice—that
too only twice a day. They are without clean drinking water
and toilet. Their well-being and health condition can easily
be imagined.
This
is not an exclusive story of the Dhungana family. People of
all ages—altogether 350 families—who are taking
shelter in the temporary camp of Bhajani-3 are living the
same fate.
(LWF
Nepal Feature Service)
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