Dubai: Community members here in the UAE are reaching out to help the food-hit families in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Torrential rains last week caused massive floods and landslides in large parts of the western Indian state, claiming the lives of around 210 and isolating several areas for days.
Residents of the worst-hit Konkan belt (Chiplun, Mahad, Khed) include family members and relatives of Indian expatriates living in the UAE.
Saeed Maldar, a sales manager with a shipping company in Dubai, said his father, 80,…