Changing climate conditions in India
If you have visited India, you will have experienced the hot summers followed by the monsoon rains. This can be a trial at the best of times but in recent years the temperatures during the summer months have been rising and the monsoon rains heavier. People have learned to live and cope with this but this year the climate has been even harsher with summer temperatures in some parts reaching new record levels and other areas having greater levels of flooding.
We have been working with our partners there as much as we can to help with drought conditions by providing water pumps, bottled water when pumps have run dry due to a drop in the water table.
We have also helped over the years with flood relief aid providing food, medical assistance and temporary shelters.
Recently we responded to two of our partners requests for help with flooding and thanks to your generous support we were able to provide much needed help.
One of our partners has sent a report of how we were able to help with some of their flood relief work.
Here is what he said:
“A big thank you Vision for Asia for helping our pastors with flood relief this year.
We really thank you from the bottom of our hearts in helping our Pastors with flood relief Aid. In this year we faced severe summer (the worst of the decades) and severe cyclones, continuity of rains, damaging the churches, houses and the roofs and surroundings. Due to these floods 3 Pastors also died of severe viral diseases. As some people could not even come out of the houses, they suffered a lot.
Although the Government has arranged rehabilitation centres, as you know we are ruled by Hindu Governments, they made some racial differences and did not give any helping hand to Christian families, pastors and the pastors are even not given drinking water. As such we seen these incidents, we appealed to VISION FOR ASIA, and our chairman Marilyn is so moved and told to send some pictures and then the Vision for Asia trustees allocated us funds to save Pastors with relief aid. This relief aid consists of basic aid packages for one month and some relief financial support to keep going and we have done this to 70 Pastors. We also got some little more monies from other friends and added this to this relief aid, but Vision for Asia helped 90% of the funds for this 80 Pastors. We are able to help 80 families with this relief aid.”
We join them in thanking you for supporting us and helping to bring much needed relief in such disastrous situations.
Marilyn
