Pictures from camps..

Food is scarce for everyone. People care a lot for the cattle that
survived the deluge and its aftermath. Cattle are more than
domesticated breadearners..they are family.
Children find n collect fresh greens for them any way they can.
This is risky(photo), but the boy was reassuringly confident
when I spoke to him.

"Whas to be done, will be done''

Thank you Serena, thank you Infosys.

We have received the following relief materials (on oct 8 2k8) from;

Serena Fonseca,

A/903, Vikas Towers Housing Society

Mogra Pada.

Andheri (E).

Mumbai 400 069. 

Carton/Bale#	Contents	# of Cartons
1	Childrens & Men’s Clothes	1
2	Ladies Clothes	1
3	Men’s Clothes	1
4	Linen (Sheets & Towels)	1
5	Medicines & Miscellaneous	1
6 – 21	Food Items - Biscuits	16
22 – 28	Food Items – Cerelac	7
29- 32	Food Items - Lactogen	4
33 – 36	Tarpaulin Sheets	4
TOTAL	Weight 800kg.	36 cartons

Dear Serena,Shanti & Cyrus DeSouza,residents of Vikas towers society
& all others who are involved in this relief effort,

Thank you so much.

Thank you for sending the relief materials despite the problems you would have faced.

Thank you for taking the initiative and seeing it thru...to make sure it reaches as close and as early to the flood victims.

Thanks a lot for sending these relief materials, I have received them all in very good condition.

Although I have not been able to meet Mr.Fonseca ( he is with the flood relief team at Saharsa), we are grateful that he & his team could come to Bihar and work with relief teams in affected areas. I hope I can meet him before he leaves for Mumbai.

The trapaulin sheets (15x12feet) coudnt have come at a better time...I was really desprate for this size of sheets.

Friends, I may not have been able to return your calls or update the blog as I am virtually traveling all the time for the last two weeks or so.

During the last ten days( 6 site visits) we have been able to distribute the following ;

• Salvar-kameez-dupatta (sets) -680 
• Salvar /loose tops/nightgowns /trackpants- 800
• Children - cotton elastic shorts -new-1200
• Mislc. dresses- ~~ 1500 (approx)
• Bedsheets,towels,blankets- 60
• chlorine water puriication tablets - 360,000.
• baby food (cerelac/farex/amul) 400 packets
• common medecines(Paracetimol, analgesics, cough n cold medications) 3 cartons
• Disposable syringe's 3 & 5 ml -900 pc
• Anti fungal cream -350 pc.
  

These are the main items, miscellaneous other stuf like slippers, sanitary nap's,cotton, band -aid, cotton badages, torchlights etc are procured locally on requirements n distributed.

1. Team  Infosys- Mysore, have collected substantial relief material and sent it through AOL.

   

1. Thanks a lot to  Aditya Shembekar,  Niranjan Baravani,  Sahana Sudarshan,  Ishan Bhalla , Surya Adivi, Sheethal Kumar G & others at Infy (Mys) for all the help.Thank you friends...may your tribe increase :)

    

    I will keep you updated of the status of consignment.

Thanks to all our donors, without  your help..this initiative would have been a non starter.

God bless you all.

`chandan
+919931763070

Items received: 03-Oct-2008

Chandan has confirmed that he received clothes (Baby, men and women clothes) from.

IDG media pvt ltd

49, Geetha Building,

3rd cross,Mission Road

Bangalore 27
http://www.idgindia.com/
http://www.pcworld.in/,
http://www.channelworld.in/


 Dear Sachin,
Thanks a lot for all the help .
We received three cartons of clothes & relief material  from IDG media on 3rd October 2008.

The clothes we received were clean, sorted and packed by gender and age categories, and that was      very thoughtful of you all.

Thanks again to all you warmhearted people at IDG media for helping in flood relief effort.

God bless you all.
   ~chandan


Guneshwar Ji sent 1 tent from Delhi which was received by Chandan on 3-oct-2008.

Expression. .. .less ?

Embanked on embankments.

~chandan.kosi.2k8
+919931763070

Schools at relief camps

Education center 1

In the background are the huts, which are temporary centers,
the strength of these schools are around 50. The attendance has been good as they are given clothes, biscuits, stationary, milk ...its a mechanism to sustain the attendance; the school is open for 4 hours daily.

The last picture is of Prathibha, herself a std 11 student and a victim of the flood, she started teaching smaller children.. And now the school has a mix of students from KG to std 8.

We have provided them/are providing books, notebooks, slate, dresses, milk powder, medicines, water purification tablets , biscuits.. to encourage children to spend more time together and learn something.

Food and shelter are provided by Mandan Bharti, Trivenigunj.