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 Sri Lanka’s worst floods in 50 hears have killed nearly 300 people. Another 500 are missing and more than 350,000 were rendered homeless by heavy rains. The rains continued for four days before water receded, leaving destroyed villages, uprooted infrastructure, bankrupted businesses and the threat of deadly communicable diseases in its wake.
World Vision was the first of many aid agencies to respond to the hardest hit areas, including Ratnapura and Elapatha, bringing rice, sugar, flour, lentils, tea, fish, candles, matches and sleeping mats to those who had lost their homes.
“Asia has been beaten time and time again by weather like this,” said Sanjay Sojwal, Asian regional communications manager. “Many of these people lost their homes in floods as recently as December.”
Within the past year, floods and landslides have struck Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu.
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