Fida International is helping people at the regions in Southern Asia that have been most badly devastated by the floods, ie. Bangladesh, India and Nepal. Since last week drinking water, food, cooking utensils and covers have been delivered to the area. In India the relief is targeted to one of the poorest areas of the country, the state of Bihar in the Northern part of India, which has suffered from the flood very seriously.

"Children, older people and the sick, as well as animals, are living at the same shelters built at road banks and high points of terrain. The shelters are made of leaves and pieces of plastic", describes Fida's aid worker Kari Harri from Bihar.

The flooding has been over five metres at worst, with two metres being a typical level. The rains are predicted to continue throughout the next week, and therefore the emergency in Southern Nepal and Nothern India will continue and the people are scared.

"Help has been received with gratitude. For example, at an area people hadn't got any food in four days", reports Fida's aid worker Sami Kivisalo.

 Harri and Kivisalo are working with local volunteers, reaching flooded regions that are difficult to access. Fida is one of the few aid organizations working in Bihar. Relief action run by the government of India have started very slowly. At Fida's working field much more help is needed than it has been financially possible to deliver.

Up to this moment 300 families in Nepal and 700 families in India have received aid from Fida. Actions to help 1,200 families in Northern, Central and Southwestern Bangladesh are underway. Delivering of aid as well as coordinating work is carried out by local long-term partners of Fida.

 In Finland private donations are welcomed to help the flood victims.

Further information: Fida International | Director for Humanitarian Aid Anneli Karras 

Telephone +358 9 5660 0441 | mobile phone +358 40 771 3041 | email anneli.karras(at)fida.info