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प्रश्न
How have the people of the community helped one another? What role do the women of Kalikuda play during these days?
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उत्तर
The people of the community helped one another by joining hands under the leadership of Prashant. They jointly pressurized the merchant to give rice as everybody was starving. A fire was lighted to cook the rice. It was the first time after the cyclone had hit the area that everyone ate their fill. A team of youth volunteers was organized to clean the shelter and to tend to the wounds and fractures of the people who had been injured because of the cyclone.
When the military helicopter dropped some food parcels but did not return, the youth task force gathered empty utensils from the shelter and deputed the children to lie in the sand with these utensils on their stomachs to communicate to the passing helicopters that they were hungry.
The women of Kalikuda looked after the orphaned children. Though they became grief stricken after a few days, on Prashant’s insistence, they also started working in the food-for work programme started by an NGO.
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Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) was a Lebanese-American artist, poet and writer. His
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