Incessant rains have pounded Assam since the first week of July 2003 causing the main river Brahmaputra and its tributaries in upper Assam to overflow and flood 20 districts. About 2,300,000 people have been affected by the floods and the death toll has risen to 50 in Assam alone. The communication systems are also seriously disrupted. The flood situation in Goalpara district is the worst with the rivers inundating 453 villages and affecting 285,000 people. The army has been deployed to assist in rescuing stranded people. Thousands of families have been rendered homeless and taken shelter in makeshift relief camps put up by the government or have taken shelter on higher land / embankments.

ACT member the Lutheran World Service India (LWSI) is proposing to assist the most vulnerable affected families in Dhubri and Goalpara Districts with supplementary feeding for children and nursing mothers, non-food relief kits and temporary shelter (plastic sheeting), dry food rations, water and sanitation as well as a health assistance.

This Appeal focuses on the crisis phase only. ACT members in the region, Church’s Auxiliary for Social Action (CASA) and LWSI are already responding by using their pre- stocked emergency materials. At the same time surveys are being conducted and distribution procedures are being finalised. ACT CO is in contact with the ACT members related to the expected follow up post crisis phase. CASA and LWSI are co-ordinating their responses.

For the sake of brevity this revision concerns the LWSI proposal only. The CASA proposal remains as in the original ASIN33 appeal issued on 18 July.

Project Completion Date:

CASA – 30 September 2003

LWSI – 15 October 2003

Signed by:
Thor-Arne Prois, ACT Director

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