Loaves and Fishes hit a "really bad financial crunch, " Baldwin said, because its federal grants for disaster relief had run out.

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Christian Aid and its partner organisations are including two dalits in the cooking teams in the relief camps they run - thus ensuring that they are not excluded.

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"The 2011 floods flash appeal remains distressingly under-funded, with a 73% shortfall, and if more funding is not received relief supplies will run out within weeks, " UN spokeswoman Stacey Winston said.

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