We need to sit up with a jolt when we watch the photograph of a glacier melting away slowly but steadily in far away Norway. It was horrific enough to watch the white glacier turn blue as it melted away.

Mother earth is being exploited in different ways for various purposes.  "She is crying because she is wounded and is suffocating." 

By Stalin. S Caritas India’s SOA-II phase program’s implementing partners from Tamilnadu attended the quarterly coordination meeting on April 27-28, 2009, at Tuticorin Multipurpose Social Service Society (TMSSS).

Introduction of CBDP programme for the flood affected communities in Bihar not only focussed on preparing people to face any disaster on their own but also to help them to come up in life and establish their presence in their own society.  The CBDP project areas are predominantly inhabited by the Dalit population like Paswans, Musharis etc. who are severely affected by annual floods and have loss of life and property every year.

Years of relief and rehabilitation work for the affected communities’ Caritas India realized the importance of enabling the communities to face impending disasters on their own. Caritas India started CBDP programmes keeping this concept in mind. It is like teaching the communities how to fish than giving them a fish.