On 1 May 2020 the Sardoba Dam burst, washing away homes, crops and livestock.
On the outskirts of the affected villages live hundreds of farmers and their families. Their crops – melon, cotton and grain – and their livestock have been washed away. They are mostly poor subsistent farmers, scratching a living. They used to live in shacks made from mud or corrugated iron. All now gone.
They don’t have much of a voice. They don’t have mobile phones or computers. They certainly don’t have the means to contact the outside world to tell them of their plight.
At this moment, they have very little shelter, hardly any food and no hope, nothing to cling on to.