World Vision India relief items are currently being distributed to 8000 families in the southern India states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, the worst-affected states in the recent floods. World Vision is also actively involved in addressing the shelter needs of flood-affected people as hundreds of houses have collapsed.

The latest update on World Vision’s relief distribution is as follows:

Vijayawada

• 600 individuals in Lanchelarevu village Vijayawada have received cooked food (breakfast, lunch and dinner)
• Non-food items and dry rations have been procured for about 2500 families
• Non-food items comprise clothing and floormats and the dry rations include rice, lentils, oil, salt and sugar
• World Vision hopes to distribute relief items to a further 6000 families

Mehboobnagar

• 455 families have received relief materials
• World Vision has procured clothing and dry rations for another 3000 families

Bijapur

• More than 500 families in the villages of Kavalangi and Lambani Thanda, and a few beneficiaries in Madhabavi, have received food and non-food items
• The World Vision team is also procuring cooked food and non-food items for a further 2600 families whose houses have collapsed

People who want to make a donation, may do so through World Vision New Zealand’s Asia-Pacific Emergency Relief Fund by going to https://www.worldvision.org.nz/Donations