Trending Now - Floods In India, Bangladesh And Nepal Kill 1,200 And Leave Millions Homeless, And Almost No One Is Talking About It
Though the carnage of Hurricane Harvey is currently dominating mainstream media, Texas isn’t the only part of the world being ravaged by flooding. International news coverage has largely ignored the torrential rainfall that has been devastating South Asia for almost the entire month of August, and it’s time for us all to start talking about it.
Across India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, record amounts of heavy monsoon rains have caused disastrous flooding and landslides. Thousands of homes have become completely submerged, poor villages have absolutely no access to food and medicine, and nearly 1200 people have died – including children. Millions have been displaced, and are now wandering the region homeless and searching for help.
In case your local news station hasn’t been reporting on it, here are 30+ photos from the scene that you won’t soon forget. The GlobalGiving Foundation is working with a number of charities and aid organisations to provide relief to the many groups affected by these events, and you can learn more about it here.
Indian one-horned rhinoceroses wade through flood waters at the Pobitora wildlife sanctuary in Assam
Image credits: Biju Boro / AFP / Getty Images
An Indian woman holds a goat while sitting on a makeshift raft in Koliabor village in Assam
Image credits: Biju Boro / AFP / Getty Images
Nepalis swim with a rubber ring in a flooded area in Parsa district
Image credits: Manish Paudel / AFP / Getty Images
A woman looks out from her house in Janakpur, Nepal
Image credits: Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters
A Bangladeshi man sits in his flooded shop after heavy rain in Dhaka
Image credits: A.m. Ahad / AP
A man walks through a flooded street during a heavy downpour in the northeastern Indian state of Tripura
Image credits: Arindam Dey / AFP / Getty Images
A Nepali man carries his goat on his shoulder as he moves to safer ground at Topa village in Saptari district
Image credits: Narendra Shrestha / EPA
Flood victims wait for relief supplies in a village east of Gauhati in the northeastern Indian state of Assam
Image credits: Anupam Nath / AP
A child and his father walk through a flooded area in Bogra, Bangladesh
Image credits: Mohammad Ponir Hossain / Reuters
Two boys stand on a banana raft in Assam, India
Image credits: Anupam Nath / AP
A man casts his fishing net in the flood waters next to his partially submerged hut in the northeastern Indian state of Assam
Image credits: Anuwar Hazarika / Reuters
People wait in a line to collect drinking water from a municipal tanker at a flooded residential colony in Ahmedabad, India
Image credits: Amit Dave / Reuters
A Nepali man tries to cross flood water at Topa village in Saptari district
Image credits: Narendra Shrestha / EPA
A boy rows a makeshift raft as he transports a woman and a cooking gas cylinder through the flood waters in Assam, India
Image credits: Anuwar Hazarika / Reuters
An Indian woman stands outside her damaged house in Runi village in Gujarat
Image credits: Ajit Solanki / AP
A woman wades through a flooded village in Bihar, India
Image credits: Cathal Mcnaughton / Reuters
Bangladesh has experienced heavy monsoon rains this year, flooding more than a third of the low-lying areas and killing at least 134 people
Image credits: A.M. Ahad / AP
A man tries to cross a flooded street in Birgunj, Nepal
Image credits: Manish Paudel / AP
Flood-affected villagers move out in search of safer places in Bihar, India
Image credits: Aftab Alam Siddiqui / AP
A man floats his dead nephew away in the Koshi river outside a village in Nepal, after the family could not find any dry land to bury the child
Image credits: Narendra Shrestha / EPA / REX / Shutterstock
Bangladeshi commuters use a rickshaw to cross a flooded street in Dhaka
Image credits: Munir Uz Zaman / AFP / Getty Images
A Nepali school is surrounded by flood waters in Saptari district
Image credits: Niranjan Shrestha / AP
Houses are partially submerged by floods in Morigaon district in Assam
Image credits: Anuwar Hazarika / Reuters
A child eats at a makeshift flood shelter in Gaur, about 200 km south of Kathmandu, the Nepali capital
Image credits: Prakash Mathema / AFP / Getty Images
