A very special Inpiration moment -- Must READ

[KOMAL JAIN <komaljain@inf.com>]

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Hi , 

Wlecome to a special edition of inspiration moment which asks you to put
your learnings into action 

Our hearts are grieving and heavy with sorrow . It difficult to know what to
say or do.  No one in Orissa  would have expected
such a devastation.People who were once comfortable and living happily with
their loved ones are now. scattered,homeless and shivering in temporary
accomodations.The future stands as a big question in front of them.

Here are some of the quotes from the news items 

The scene along the 24-km road to Jamboo from Marsaghai is macabre, with
death and destruction everywhere. Excepting the few pucca buildings, not a
single house is intact. The cyclone warning, it appears, was not known or
was ignored. People everywhere said that the toll was highest among those
who had ventured out into the open on that fateful day. Even those inside
were not safe. Many were crushed under collapsing walls and roofs. Among the
dead were several people who came here to spend their vacation from far off
places like Calcutta, Surat and Gurgaon.

While there is nobody to tend to the dead or give a decent burial, even
those living are finding it difficult to fend off death. Food shortages are
acute, all stored food having been spoiled with water inundating the houses.
Drinking water sources, except the few surviving handpumps, are
contaminated. The people had not eaten for days. Another major fear is
epidemics. The rotting bodies, animal carcasses and rotting plants and trees
have prepared a macabre cocktail for epidemics like cholera and dysentery. 

There was fear of cholera and typhoid spreading in the affected villages.
The poorer seemed particularly vulnerable as they had no shelter, no food,
no spare clothes and no money.

Mass cremation begins in Paradip

Benumbing reports of a looming epidemic, widespread damage to property and
the inestimable loss of life kept trickling in with each slow advance of
rescue-relief teams into the worst-affected areas. Earthmovers and dumpers
had to be enlisted to clear highly-decomposed bodies en bloc in Paradip and
its outskirts as the administration prepared for mass burials, six days
after the cyclone left a long trail of devastation.

The demand for food and potable water far outstrips availability and there
were heart-rending accounts of free-for-alls between desperate people at
relief distribution centres. Inundation of many areas across the course of
the cyclone remain only part of the problem: floating corpses and carcass
have made the threat of diseases of epidemic proportions real. 

Experts fear diseases, specially cholera, typhoid and hepatitis, could be
widespread within the first 10 days of the cyclone, and insect-borne
diseases such as malaria, dengue and japanese encephalitis in 10 days
thereafter.

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The recent photographs in the newspapers of a scuffle between the Villagers
and the
railway police over sharing of food and relief materials on the track and
the other photograph of a
low flying helicopter dropping food supplies to a crowd eagerly awaiting for
them with many people in the Crowd
being Old aged people and the photographs of scattered dead bodies bring
tears in our eyes.

May I request all of you to Please keep the people of Orissa, and especially
the people
who had lost their family members who were once the breadwinners for the
family and all affected families,in your
thoughts and prayers.         

It is said  and found true that extreme circumstances bring out extreme
kindness in people.
Let us help and contribute in whatever small way we can to the Cyclone
relief fund.
As we know it is little drops of water that make a Mighty ocean and let our
little contribution added with
other contributions help to restore normal life in Orissa.

We can accomplish anything we commit ourselves to by working together.
Let's do it and bring Sunshine in the lives of the affected people.

Have a Great day

komal 



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