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Dec 18, 2008: Flood Relief Action - Activists Meet
Dec 03, 2008: Material Distributin at a Glance
Nov 22, 2008: Latest Statistics on Flood Relief
Nov 02, 2008: Aise mani hamari Deewali - Dharmendar's report.
Nov 01, 2008: Health report from Dharmendra
Oct 29, 2008: Photos by Greg Bentley - US Volunteer
Oct 29, 2008: A report on my visit to Saharsa - Vivek Prasad
Oct 22, 2008: Bihar Flood - The National Disaster: Field report by Oliver, AID Chennai
Oct 20, 2008: Field Report by Nikunj, AID Delhi
Oct 20, 2008: Field Report by Sonia Singh, AID Delhi
Oct 16, 2008: Report by AID Bihar from 3rd - 28th Sep
Sep 22, 2008: Bihar Floods: Situation, Analysis & Plans
Sep 16, 2008: Update from Dharmendra to Oliver on phone
Sep 12, 2008: Update from Balaji Sampath on phone from Akaha village
Sep 10, 2008: Update from Balaji Sampath from Patna
Sep 9: Field update from Dharmendar & Pratham
Sep 9, 2008: Update from Pratham
Sep 9, 2008: Update from Tamilnadu Team
Sep 6, 2008: Field update from Dharmendar
Sep 5, 2008: Field update from Dharmendar
Sep 5, 2008: Update from Dharmendar on Phone
Sep 5, 2008: Field update from Sanjay and Rukmini, Pratham
Sep 5, 2008: Update from Balaji Sampath
Sep 4, 2008: Update - Kalpana Shastri needs medicines
Sep 3, 2008: Field update from Dharmendar
Sep 3, 2008: Field update from Dharmendar
 
AID INDIA - Bihar Flood Relief 2008
A report by AID Bihar from 3rd to 28th Sep 2008

AID-Bihar started its work on full fledge with its team consisting of 12 members from 8-sep-2008, who came down to Saharsa from Arwal district and Dehari block of Rohtas district of Bihar.

From 11th September 2008, the team has reduced its relief work in camps to increased its relief work more in village keeping the main objective as,

  • To reach such village where the govt., and no single people has reached, which took lot of groundwork for the team in preparing list of villages and victims.
  • Ensure the victims identified, get the relief material with the help of volunteers, Ngo’s and local coordinators.

AID India and Goonj jointly were able to reach 4018 families 13/9/08 to 25/9/08 in 16 villages of Beldhaur and Pathargat block that are:

Sl.No Village No.Of. Families reached
1 Bhajanpatti 255
2 Visanpur 300
3 Kapasia 300
4 Sakhauri 250
5 Vijaypur musori 73
6 Bhoganpatti 500
7 Akha 350
8 Rukamania 100
9 Koyilatamar 160
10 Bhind toli 250
11 Kadava vasa 201
12 Bholadas tola 267
13 Khehar mandal 300
14 Govas 502
15 Kanjeri 100
16 Vishunpuri 110
  Total 4018

AID India has independently reached more than 4000 families and provided food packet, old cloths and milk powder in villages that are:

Sl.No Village No.Of. Families reached
1 Eksatbasa 155
2 Mahinath nagar 238
3 Kapasia 313
4 Koriyapatti panchayat 826
5 Jadiya panchayat 645
6 Daparka panchayat 734
7 Barakurva 135
8 Bhuthipool 200
9 Murvallah 56
10 Goongi 97
11 Haji nagar 83
12 Pilvaha panchayat 213
13 Mirjawa Panchayat 308
14 Manganj 226
15 Rajbandha Musahari 93
16 Kachra 107
  Total 4429

Madhepura camp is been supported by AID India, wherein our team is providing the essential food items such as Channa, Chuda, Milk powder, Chawal, Salt choka (potato rice) from 6th September. The camp was later supported with Kichdi, cooked rice from 20th September.

Now, our team has strengthened; in terms of contact, support from local, human resource for relief work. At present, the team has outreached its relief work in 8 camps apart from village that are:

  • Koshi People’s Relief Committee camp – Saharsa, Railway Station
  • Madhepura
  • Zeromile – Belldhaur
  • Sarpriya – Belldhaur
  • Triveniganj Block H.Q
  • Koriyapatti
  • Dhabiayahi
  • Jadiya

In reach of Muslim community:

Eureka team is providing food items such as milk powder, biscuit and mixture to muslim community people, both for Afthari (morning food) and Shehari (evening food), since its being Ramzan month for them and people practice their religious fasting in Saharsa, Beldhaur, Madhepura, Triveniganj.

The Relief Mechanism of AID- Bihar (Eureka team):

The overall coordination is carried out by Dharmendra (AID – Bihar coordinator), Mr.Sanjay and Mr.Shankar.

  • The team tries its maximum to reach the unreached place with relief material and community participation.
  • The team identifies affected village of remote place with help of local people and prepares a list of people affected most and are given coupon (in some villages) for which relief material are provided in 1 or 2 days.
  • Now, all most 80% of our team’s relief works are carried out with help of local community (villagers) support. In addition, Eureka team is now, identified as a unique organization with its systematic working approach in relief operation, while other organization working in flood affected area in Bihar get into trouble and their relief material either get stolen or people get into quarrel while distributing relief materials.
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