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We need everything. But if someone can give us cash or help build our houses that would
be the best thing. We don¡¦t need anything else. Just start to rebuild our homes and
get one or two people to find out what¡¦s needed to do that.
They could come and see what is destroyed so that we can build our own houses so we
can get out of here. So we don¡¦t need more than this.
The school has been destroyed and things are getting bad. We are praying for the old times
so we can go back to our homes. We don¡¦t need anything here but we need you to put
our homes right so we can go back home.
What should we do here? The time we have spent here has been a very difficult time for us
and we would like put it behind us and go back home. If we had a choice we would have
gone yesterday.
What we are saying is that our children¡¦s education is suffering and the future is getting
darker. We want to go back home and once we do that hopefully all these problems will
be overcome with time, with the grace of god. We don¡¦t need anything else but we want
to go back.
We are very poor people. If we had the resources we would have not waited for the government.
We would have gone back and rebuilt our homes ourselves and solved our own problems.
Although it¡¦s a difficult time, we are trying to pass this time as best as we can.
Whatever has happened to us isn¡¦t important - we are more concerned about our children.
We pray to God and we hope this flooding won¡¦t happen again. You can see all the destruction.
Everything is ruined. Our meagre assets have been washed away. Our only source of income
was a donkey cart and that¡¦s gone too.
My husband is also stuck doing nothing. Neither of us can do anything. So we are praying that
this flood won¡¦t happen again. It¡¦s affected so many people.
We need everything. Eid is just around the corner. We have no clothes and no shoes. I
have four children and they only gave us one set of clothes, so we have to manage somehow.
We don¡¦t care about ourselves, but our children don¡¦t understand the situation,
so we need to do something. I¡¦ve asked for a sewing machine we can make our own clothes,
which we¡¦re doing now. But we have to be patient.
They (the children) have skin rashes, diarrhoea and have mouth sores. The doctor here only
gives us one kind of medicine, for every illness. So we stopped going there now. And even to
get this medicine we have to show the ration card.
Yesterday my daughter had a fever and sore eyes. The doctor had finished work for the
day, so we had to go back. If the right medicine isn¡¦t available then it¡¦s a waste of
time going to the doctor.
They gave the same medicine for diarrhoea to one patient and the same medicine to another
patient for her eyes. We are not educated, but at least we can figure this out. There
are so many of these problems, it¡¦s difficult to mention them all. But we hope we can go
back because things will be better there.
There are so many problems. How can they solve all of them? There are no fans, so the mosquitoes
bite us. There are so many flies and there is so much dirt. We have to queue for water.
They used to bring us cooked food, but now they stopped doing that, so we have to try
to cook our own in the tent. There are so many of these issues, which one do we prioritise?
We have pulled ourselves out of the water. We¡¦ve saved ourselves and our children.
Everything else has been washed away by the floodwater. There¡¦s so much damage. We¡¥re
very tired of this place and we¡¦d like to go back. If someone could help us, we would
like to go back home.
We¡¦ve already spent so many days here. All we need is a home. If we can have a place
to live we¡¦d go back. Just look at the conditions here. It¡¦s hot and we¡¦re
fasting for Ramadan as well.
Eid is coming up very soon and this time at the end of Ramadan is important. Even if we
get something here, the distribution isn¡¦t fair. People fight over it and the stronger
people get their hands on the aid supplies first.