| BAPS Charities BEGINS RELIEF WORK IN
FLOOD AFFECTED GUJARAT
Summary
of Relief Efforts (As of August 11, 2006)
- 133,905 food packets distributed
- 10,900 people provided meals
- 143,700 fresh water pouches distributed
- 2 tankers of fresh drinking water distributed water
in remote areas
- 800 bottles of fresh drinking water distributed
- Flour, Rice and other food grains distributed to thousands
Flood Situation
The monsoon rains, beginning during the last week of July have caused wide spread flooding in the state of Gujarat in western India. Vast areas have been submerged under water and many villages have been isolated. According to official estimates over 4.5 million people have become homeless and many others have lost their livelihood. The army has been deployed to assist rescue and relief operations.
danger level.
BAPS Charities Relief Work
Responding to the
critical needs of the people of the flood affected areas;
BAPS Charities has started the immediate relief
work in flood affected areas across Gujarat.
There is an urgent
and pressing need for food and water distribution. To address
this, BAPS Charities centers in Gujarat marshaled
into action and prepared 133,905 food packets and
143,700 fresh water pouches at Amdavad, Valsad,
Navsari, Sakari, Vadodara, Bochasan, Nadiad, Mehsana, Mehlav,
Piplav, Bharuch, Gadhada, and Gandhinagar and Surendranagar
in just one day.
Apart from this,
10,900 flood affected people have been provided meals and
rice, flour and other food grains have been distributed
to thousands in areas where it is possible to cook but food
supplies are not available.
To ensure these
food packets reach the affected areas during this critical
time, volunteers defied heavy rain and walked through waist
deep waters to reach the remote areas. Volunteers have also
teamed up with the government officials to supply aid in
certain areas. Where land vehicles are unable to trek in
the heavily flood stricken zones, boats have been used to
supply emergency aid.
In Surat and surrounding areas which are
the worst affected by the torrential rain, it is not possible
to reach there even by boat and food supplies are being
air-dropped by Indian Air force. BAPS Charities
volunteers from Bhavnagar, Gujarat helped and supported
them.
A few trucks containing food supplies have
reached Adajan near Surat and soon hot meal kitchens would
be started there.
The relief effort of BAPS Charities is evolving
in all affected regions and in this week around 300,000
food packets and water pouches will be distributed.
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Gujarat Flood Relief Work Aug. 08, 06 |
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| How to Help |
Phone:
You
can donate on phone via check or credit card at (888)
CARE-881 or 732-777-1818
Mail:
For USA
Mail checks payable to "BAPS Charities" to
BAPS Charities - Gujarat Flood Relief
Fund
81 Suttons Lane Suite 103,
Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
For Canada
BAPS Charities - Gujarat
Flood Relief Fund
61 Claireville Drive,
Toronto, ON M9W 5Z7, CANADA
Tel: (416) 798-2277
Fax: (416) 798-4498
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