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ACTNews, PASAMAN
– The flash floods that swept Lundar Hamlet in Panti District, Pasaman
Regency on Sunday (2/13/2022) severely damaged residential houses, water sources,
and agricultural lands. The residents are now in need of clean water and
capital assistance to replant their farms. The floods have severely damaged the
agricultural lands that were ready for harvest.
One of the flood
victims, a resident of Lundar Village Andi said that the residents were currently in need of clean and drinking water after the flood buried the water
wells with mud and debris.
"Alhamdulillah,
thank you very much for the drinking water assistance. We really needed mineral
drinking water at the moment. Our water wells and springs were buried. Even if
there’s a water source that is still intact, the water is surely cloudy,” said
Andi, Tuesday (2/15/2022).
Ahmad Diar, Branch
Manager of the Aksi Cepat Tanggap (ACT) West Pasaman Branch said the Village of
Lundar in Panti District of Pasaman Regency was prone to flooding. As a result,
dozens of houses and a number of public facilities were severely damaged.
"The head of the Lundar Village said at least 50 houses were submerged by the floods on Sunday (2/13/2022) afternoon, twenty of which were badly damaged,” said Ahmad Diar.
MRI-ACT Pasaman
provides food packages and mineral water for flood victims in Panti District.
(ACTNews/Agusriadi)
Diar continued, the
floods not only damaged houses and infrastructure but also farmlands that were almost ready for harvest. “The farmers have spent a lot on capital, and some
even got into debts especially that the prices of fertilizers have been soaring
lately,” he explained.
To ease the
victims’ hardship, ACT and Masyarakat Relawan Indonesia (MRI) distributed
food and mineral water on Tuesday (2/15/2022). For the first phase, a total of
thirty aid packages were given away to the victims. []
