Missionaries with Gospel for Asia (GFA) are helping thousands throughout southern India who were hit hard by recent floods.
Last week, heavy rains led to widespread flooding in two Indian states, destroying homes, crops, and livestock. Millions of survivors lost their homes and all possessions and are left without food or clean water. Daniel Yohannan, vice president of GFA, says many of the neediest do not receive help from the government for some time. "[Y]ou'll find [that] when any kind of disaster takes place -- especially [in] India and Nepal and Sri Lanka -- where there is the caste system, where people are divided up into different groups, most of the people who are suffering...are the Dalits," he explains. "The aid actually never gets to the needy, which are the Dalits, because they are the ones who live way out in the villages. They are the most poor and they have no means to survive apart from their little farm and their little animal that they have." Yohannan sees opportunity in that, however, noting that it allows GFA missionaries to display God's love. "...[W]e have our GFA-supported churches in these areas that have been hit the hardest," says Yohannon. "So our people in the churches and the schools, they're out there right now helping the people [in] the most need...people [who] don't have the infrastructure which we have." Yohannan says to his knowledge, no GFA missionaries have been hurt as a result of the recent flooding.
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