1. What havoc has the super cyclone wreaked in the life of the people of Orissa?
1. What havoc has the super cyclone wreaked in the life of the people of Orissa?
Explanation:
A super cyclone uproots and collapses centuries-old trees across the planet. People and homes were quickly swept away. A layer of brown water, furious and deadly, covered everything as far as the eye could see; only dilapidated concrete houses stood in a few places. Inflated carcasses of animals and human’s float. Even the big trees have fallen.
2. How has Prashant, a teenager, been able to help the people of his village?
2. How has Prashant, a teenager, been able to help the people of his village?
Explanation:
At only 19 years old, Prashant decided to lead the people of the village. He organized a group of young and old to put pressure on the businessman again to give up rice. This task completed successfully. For the first time in four days, survivors of hurricane shelters can fill their stomachs.
He then organized a team of young volunteers to clean up the mud, urine, vomit, and floating corpses in the shelters and tend to the wounds and broken bones of those injured by the hurricane. He rounded up the orphans and built them a polythene shelter.
3. How have the people of the community helped one another? What role do the women of Kalikuda play during these days?
3. How have the people of the community helped one another? What role do the women of Kalikuda play during these days?
Explanation:
Under Prashant's leadership, members of the community help each other in groups. They persuaded merchants to help them provide usable rice. The youth contingent left the children lying in the sand left by the waters around the shelter with the paraphernalia on their stomachs, telling passing helicopters that they were hungry. Word spread and they began to receive food and other basic necessities on a regular basis.
The women of Calikuda were mobilized to care for the orphans, while the men procured food and materials for the shelter. The women started working in a cash-for-work program run by an NGO.
4. Why do Prashant and other volunteers resist the plan to set up institutions for orphans and widows? What alternatives do they consider?
4. Why do Prashant and other volunteers resist the plan to set up institutions for orphans and widows? What alternatives do they consider?
Explanation:
Prashant and other volunteers opposed plans to establish institutions for orphans and widows because they believed that in such institutions children would grow up without love and widows would suffer from stigma and loneliness.
They considered alternatives to relocating orphans to their own communities, possibly to new foster homes made up of childless widows and children without adult care.
5. Do you think Prashant is a good leader? Do you think young people can get together to help people during natural calamities?
5. Do you think Prashant is a good leader? Do you think young people can get together to help people during natural calamities?
Explanation:
Yes, Prashant is a great leader. Despite his own grief, he decided to lead the villagers. He organized a group of young and old men to help others through difficult times. He has taken various initiatives to help get people's lives back on track.
Yes, I think young people can come together to help people during natural disasters. Young people are full of vitality and strength. They possess fresh and effective methods to decrease the damaging effect of disasters by helping more and more people.
