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I have recently returned from South Sudan where I met groups of people who had to travel for days at a time, and sometimes weeks, to get back to their home country. Along the way they saw babies and old people die – just too weak to complete a difficult journey with little or no food, and no protection at all from mosquitoes and the elements.
Everyone I met was relieved to have reached their destination in South Sudan but it was quickly apparent that the physical journey was just the start of their story.
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The journey from Bhubaneswar, Orissa's state capital to Kendrapada district is long. As we drive modern India shouts from bill boards and hand painted adverts. The roads get ever smaller. Billboards and tarmac are left behind and soon we are bumping along dirt tracks. Below the raised roadway the flat landscape reaches away punctuated with villages and rivers.
Last October heavy rain fall caused flooding that hit this region twice in the span of 15 days. 2.5 million people were affected, with many families losing their homes and crops.
"How do we predict this? The floods have never been so bad before, you never know." says Santilata Malik, a widow.
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