ABANDONED after the fury of the flood


  • Photographer
    Carol Allen-Storey
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    CASTOREY photography
  • Date of Photograph
    June 2014
  • Technical Info
    CANON 5D MARK II

ABANDONED after the fury of the flood On the first day of May 2013 in Kasese Uganda, relentless thrashing rain fell on the soil-eroded Rwenzori Mountains. Its fury cascaded down into the River Nyamwamba bursting its fragile banks creating flash flooding, leaving a disastrous trail of destruction in its wake. A year later, the crippled community is coping with the aftermath, especially the Kilembe Mines Hospital. Efforts to tame the river over the last year have been marginal as the ‘river-rage’ continues during the rainy season. Immediately after the disaster occurred there was support from disaster relief emergency agencies. Within a few months they departed without any mandated plan to mitigate the cause of this natural disaster fuelled by a combination of climate change and the footprint of man, nor funds for the loss of nurses homes and acute hospital supplies. In spite of acute shortages and compromised reconstruction, the hospital operates serving its community with a high standard of care with very limited resources.

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