Standing waters bred mosquitoes in Kakinada neighborhoods
after July monsoons.
Monsoons are welcomed in India, because they break Summer's terrible heat and drench the parched earth with needed water for crops. The seasonal rains can cause havoc in coastal areas, however, especially in poor slum neighborhoods where people lose everything when flood waters rise.
Lack of appropriate dams and drainage systems causes sufferings and loss of life in poor villages year after year. Fr. Varghese helped evacuate his coastal people for several days in late July and fed them on Sacred Heart Mission grounds, but then joined many in the area in contracting viral fever after mosquitoes proliferated from standing water. Let's keep all our missionaries and people in these tropical regions in prayer as they face hardship and rebuild their lives post-monsoon.
People find a welcome at Sacred Heart Mission as
homes flood, shops close and food supplies dwindle.
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