Sr. Ancilla, Sr. Little Therese and Sr. Mary Juliet joined the team tut’s aleeady working in the Himalayan region.

While visiting villages one of the emergency need that we found was light. The electricity system in many villages has been destroyed very badly in some villages and in other villages there is no electricity at all. So CTF decided to give solar lanterns in some needy villages. The solar lantern is a multipurpose lantern that gives light as well as charges the mobile phones. The smile on the faces of those who received was something to cherish. We pasted the emblem of CTF on the lanterns, and thus the Red Cross is carried to the 400 homes. May be for the first time a cross is entering these homes, of course bringing light and smiles on their faces.

CTF REACHES AUGUSTYAMUNI—one of the worst effected place

Agastyamuni is famous for the temple of Maharshi priya ranjan and by the name of religious guru Agastya, it is called agastyamuni. It is situated on the river bank
of Mandakini. Interestingly, we the CTF together with Fr. Babu reached Augustyamuni the next day after the feast of St. Augustine. It was a coincidence that happened with the term and the time.

If you want to understand the force and strength of water, this is a place to be. The destruction it has caused to the land and people living on the banks of the river is huge and it has made a lot of people flee from this place. Now people are scared to build homes on the river bank.

It was difficult for us to find a place to stay as the people who were living on the bank have occupied the other side and the hotels filled with NGOS. It was difficult to get out with the uniform of CTF as people would come around you showing you the details that they have lost house, lost field, etc. and ask for help. Sometimes it is hard to believe, as peo- ple say, that there used to be a college in that place, as you don’t even see anything to suggest there was a college. Such is the destruction the river has done.