The day started with rain in Otatamawadu, a village in Vallachanai. We visited two small camps. The camps didn’t have much people. But their houses broken and things washed away or damaged. The children and women had lot of stress. We went see some homes, damaged. They were already poor when rain came.
They lived in leaf roofed; mud made houses and slept on floors on leaf weaved carpets. In most cases kitchen and bedroom. The bedroom also the living room. Their garden was lagoon shore and lived from fishing or days work. The hadn’t experienced flood this scale before. When water came they left home with children and now in camps. Still rain delays receding of water. Even if they return they have no place to sleep, no cloths, no kitchen utencils.
This all happened in few hours. Tsunami was just 15 minutes. Because people had some time lives were least lost, but the damage to the domestic economy seems huge, a silent killer flood.
With houses and belongings lost and displaced. Its peoples way of life that was lost, not much infrastructure. If whole country does not come supporting, this loss will reflect in national economy making more people suffer as a consequence. There is a severe need for nation wide support, People to People is a strong lesson we learned from Tsunami.
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