A child eats some rice in Sunderbans, West Bengal, India on Oct 3, 2009. People of Sundarban delta continue to suffer due to food insecurity, proper healthcare and sanitation services. Malnutrition, skin infections and diarrhea is widespread from newly born babies to adults. Children are not just traumatized by the damage to their homes, schools and neighborhoods, but their fear is also heightened by seeing their distressed and anxious parents. They are unable to get regular meals, they stop going to school, and in most cases they end homeless or in makeshift houses.[Photo/IC] |