Cyclone Hits Horintana
June 10, 2009 Rob No CommentsJust heard that a Cyclone hit Horintana last week. All the children in the orphanage are safe and that there was not a great deal of loss of life in the surrounding area – although there has been a great deal of damage Global Care have sent out £1,500 to help immediately with the clear up and also to provide some clean water etc. Although the new buildings held up well the kitchen (an older structure) was destroyed.
The Fish Farm was partly damaged, the main pond with the carp in has been saved as they had constructed extra large earth mounds around. This was part of our agreements to fund the pond as it had been destroyed on two other occasions when the fresh water fish had died when salt water had flowed into the pond. So all is well with the Carp pond. However a smaller pond stocked with shrimp, to sell on to make money for the running of the home was puluted with salt water resulting in the loss of the shrimp.
Part of the visit planned for September this year will be to ensure there is adequate protection for the comunity and farm from cyclones such as this.
Firstly, as we said before, we bought a fish farm! How cool is that!!The plan now is that in September I’ll be joined by a bunch of people from Global care to go and see the farm in action and do a bit of fish farming myself. The Fish Farm will provide food and sustainable income for the Horintana community and pre-school.The idea of the September trip is to raise awareness of the work Global care are doing in bangladesh with the children both in the Home Of Joy in Khulna and in the Horintana pre-school and orphanage. I’ll keep you posted with the preperations for the trip and some of the fund-raising ideas we’ll be doing. 
In a couple of weeks we start the autumn tour and I’ll have a ‘Bangladesh board’ with me with all the info about B:08 and what’s happening.
Taken from BBC News Website.
