Caritas India, DONATEKART Foundation Deliver Emergency Shelter to 500 Flood-Hit Families in Assam

Caritas India, backed by Amazon through the DONATEKART Foundation, has completed an emergency shelter response for 500 flood-affected families across seven villages in the MSTD Block of Jonai, Dhemaji district, one of the areas worst hit by Assam’s 2026 floods.

The intervention distributed shelter kits — tarpaulins, ground sheets, rope, mosquito nets, and carrier bags — to all 500 families, while the 400 most vulnerable households also received blankets. Distribution covered the villages of Sikerseleck, Ujani Misamora, Luhit, Arunchapori, Madupur, Gamchuck, and Komonselek.

The response comes after floodwaters swept through seven districts of Assam this year, affecting more than 50,000 people, submerging 257 villages and over 4,279 hectares of cropland, and damaging homes, roads, and bridges, according to the Assam State Disaster Management Authority. Dhemaji was the hardest-hit district, with nearly 41,000 people affected and hundreds of families displaced.

Beneficiaries were selected through a community-based process that prioritized households with destroyed or damaged homes, women-headed households, widows, persons with disabilities, chronically ill individuals, BPL and low-income families, daily wage labourers, families that lost a member to the disaster, and households with children, elderly members, or pregnant and lactating women.

“The flood swept away my home and everything I had built over the years. Every day, I relive that painful loss,” said Mumin, a resident of Madupur village. “Today, these shelter kits and blankets are much more than relief materials — they remind us that we are not alone in this difficult time. We are deeply grateful to Amazon, the DONATEKART Foundation, and Caritas India for standing with us and restoring hope in our lives.”

Caritas India’s effort was designed to give displaced families greater safety, protection, and dignity as they begin rebuilding, and described the intervention as one part of a longer-term commitment to the affected communities. It continues working alongside flood-hit families as they recover, with a focus on strengthening resilience for future disasters as well as meeting immediate needs.

With more than six decades of experience in disaster relief and humanitarian response, Caritas India brings to every crisis a depth of understanding that goes beyond logistics — an understanding of the real need, and the real misery, behind each displaced family’s story. That experience is grounded in a single mission: restoring the human dignity of the poor and the marginalised. It is this mission that keeps the organization standing with communities like those in Jonai not as a one-time responder, but as a compassionate, constant presence through their hardest days. Each shelter kit that reached Sikerseleck, Ujani Misamora, Luhit, Arunchapori, Madupur, Gamchuck, and Komonselek carried that same intention woven into it — a tangible piece of hope for families rebuilding a better life after losing nearly everything.