Archives for March 8, 2005

Tsunami-hit dalit farmers earn a bit of cash

March 8, 2005

Praveena Shivram meets some of the farmers from Akaraivattam, on the Karaikal coast of Pondicherry employed by the Oxfam’s cash-for-work programme where local men and women earn daily wages for debris removal from the village, leveling land and desilting irrigation canals, farm ponds and wells.

Knotting the string of devastated livelihoods

March 8, 2005

Village “Vadaku Poigai Nadutheru”, Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu: What happens to families whose professions are circuitously linked to that of the fishing community? In this village, most of the families whose work revolved around the fishing community have been left bereft of work ever since the tsunami hit their coast on December 26, 2004.

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