Rosalie Hughes
Rosalie Hughes is an information fellow for International Rescue Committee in Kathmandu, Nepal. Her responsibilities include writing grant proposals and donor reports and supporting IRC Nepal's field staff. She will be in Nepal through April 2009.
Nepalese villagers take in Indian flood survivors
Author: Rosalie Hughes
"It was 10pm and I'd just laid down to sleep," Purna, a 29-year old from India's recently flooded Bihar district tells me. We sit on a grassy patch overlooking the dry riverbed where just two weeks ago the Koshi River flowed.
Purna has a boyish round face and dimples. His skin shows through the holes in his weathered blue t-shirt. He speaks slowly, shaking his head. "First I heard my mother scream, 'Water, water!' Then I felt my blanket get wet. A minute later, the water was five feet high."
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Author: Rosalie Hughes
"It was 10pm and I'd just laid down to sleep," Purna, a 29-year old from India's recently flooded Bihar district tells me. We sit on a grassy patch overlooking the dry riverbed where just two weeks ago the Koshi River flowed.
Purna has a boyish round face and dimples. His skin shows through the holes in his weathered blue t-shirt. He speaks slowly, shaking his head. "First I heard my mother scream, 'Water, water!' Then I felt my blanket get wet. A minute later, the water was five feet high."
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