Ferchi

But the end result is that we as a state have been completely unsuccessful in meeting the needs of our people. It is their own resilience that keeps them going, coupled with what little help they receive from various organisations. Occasionally the government steps in, as has now happened in Tharparkar. But it is difficult to believe that this intervention will last any length of time. There have, after all, been famines before. Beyond the immediate delivery of inadequate first aid, we saw nothing done to prevent the next, and that disaster is now of course upon us.