I've been spending the past few days out in the field. On Friday I travelled with the CBDP (community based disaster preparedness) supervisor and another staff from SWI and we met up with some liaison officers from Kolkata that work with all eight dioceses in West Bengal. We drove to Kumarganj in the South Dinajpur district, about 2 hours south of Raiganj (but still in the Raiganj diocese) to go to a few community meetings to see how the villages have been implementing the CBDP programs into their communities. One of the communities that we visited performed a drama of how they had implemented the program and steps they had in place to prepare for a disaster. Basically they have community meetings and form a small self government in the village and also teach basic hygiene, first aid, how to make lifejackets, lifeguard saves, where the nearest high ground is in case of flood, etc. All in all it was really great to have a chance to go out into the villages and see this stuff in action.
Erin and I are heading out to a parish in Baliogoan which is a village about an hour for here. We'll be staying for a week so I'm sure I'll have lots to write about when we get back. Oh, and I saw the sunset while we were driving on Friday and Saturday. It was amazing.
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