UNITED SIKHS Malaysia provides relief mission for Punjab's flooded farmlands

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UNITED SIKHS Malaysia is currently on a humanitarian flood mission in Punjab, India to assist farmers who have been affected by the recent floods.   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00I'm Sunil Singh from Malaysia, United Sikhs.

00:05I arrived in Punjab on the 20th of August for a family holiday, and that family holiday

00:14now has turned into a humanitarian aid.

00:19Sunil Sukfir Singh, a volunteer with humanitarian organization United Sikhs Malaysia, found

00:25himself witnessing the devastating floods that have inundated thousands of acres of farmland

00:30in Mundapind in Tarantaran district.

00:33On the 3rd of August, waters rose.

00:39On the 3rd of August, until now, the water has not receded.

00:44Actually, today they are saying the water level has actually increased.

00:47There are about 3,600 acres of land that has actually gone under in multiple villages.

01:00And with this land that has submerged, we have multiple families who have suffered extreme

01:08amount of losses due to them losing their way to earn income.

01:15Located along the banks of the Sutlej River, this farming settlement has become one of

01:20the casualties of Punjab's worst flooding crisis in decades, with waters reaching dangerous

01:25levels.

01:26Daily wage workers have lost their source of income for the past 30 days, while thousands

01:31of cattle and buffaloes have been swept away.

01:33So, what we have here is a very, very sad condition of, you know, the land that feed you has now

01:43submerged and become a sea.

01:45In this area itself is about 100 acres of field area.

01:50All has become, all has gone underwater.

01:54This is a season of where you plant paddy, and the whole paddy season is about to be completed.

02:05The river bank broke, everything has been drowned, nothing is left.

02:10The low ground area has turned into a sea.

02:15The devastating floods have submerged more than 1,000 villages throughout Punjab, impacting

02:20around 1.46 million people, including thousands of livestock.

02:25The rescued farm animals now face critical food shortages, with extremely limited feed

02:31available for their survival.

02:33As an initial humanitarian response, United Seeks Malaysia donated 500 bags of livestock

02:39feed to three affected villages.

02:42Sunil says United Seeks Malaysia is also coordinating with local relief teams to provide immediate

02:49assistance to affected farming families.

02:51Lots of work to do.

02:53The current work is actually just keeping people clean enough of food and water.

02:59When the real work starts, when the workers cease, when these people's livelihood are not

03:04used to be brought back to normal, there's a lot of work to be done.

03:09Getting their fields back in the usable condition for the next round of plantation is the real work.

03:19United Seeks Malaysia is also coordinating efforts to help farmers salvage any remaining crops

03:25and equipment.

03:29It's the first day, we have the results that are in the

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