Event Log for Project Prayas

The field team has reached Jorhat with the tarpoulins. The first round of distribution of the relief materials will take place in Majuli today.

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Sankalp Volunteers distributed 442 tarpaulins to villages in Majuli. They identified the villages with the divisional officer from the district administration. The relief materials were distributed to the needy in the presence of our volunteer. The list of villages and number of tarpaulins distributed are as follows:

• Ratunpur GPU: 371
• Jubi Gaon: 15
• Salmara Spur: 36
• Salmara Spur2(Besmara): 31
• Colony bari: 19

Breakdown of Ratanpur GPU:

• Grazing Colony: 32
• Chinatila: 87
• Dharnai Chapori: 48
• Barkhor Goan: 11
• Na-Pomua: 4
• Lahon Goan: 7
• Kathal Kua: 14
• Kumali Chapori: 18
• Goroimari: 150

Our volunteers are staying at Majuli today and will commence distribution of materials to other affected areas tomorrow.

Thank you all for supporting our endeavour in trying to reaching out to our countrymen who need our support at the moment.

Due to network interruptions the field team was not able to send any images from Majuli, images will be updated once the team is back to Jorhat.

• Field team will continue the distribution of relief materials today in the remianing villages of Majuli. Hoping to complete the delivery of the current 1117 tarpaulin sheets today.
• DM of Sibsagar district of Assam has requested for 1000 Mosquito Nets as an immediate requirement. Outbreak of Encephalitis. Decision whether we can support this request or not is to be taken. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalitis
• Based on this data we are considering to extend the fund contribution so that additional contributions can be used to purchase Mosquito Nets. Final decision in 2 hours.

(Please expect images and contribution details by this evening.)

All the tarpaulins purchased were distributed at Majuli today.
Most of the villages covered today were visited by our volunteers via boats.

The exact need and scope of the affected areas and required materials for next set of distribution will be analysed tomorrow by field volunteers.

We were unable to receive images from Field team today due to connectivity issues. We are expecting images from the team by tomorrow evening.

We request every individual contributors willing to contribute financially to do so by 6 pm 18th July 2012. The amount received by that time will be utilized for procuring relief materials for flood affected victims. Any amount received beyond that time would be put to fixed deposit for future disasters that we will be participating.

Field Team has proceeded to Jorhat from Majuli.

One of the volunteer will next proceed to Sibsagar(1 hr from Jorhat), where they will access the exact need by consulting the district administrator and do some local reseach.

The other volunteer will assess mosquito nets procurement at guwahati.

Details of tarpoulins distributed to villages on 17th July, 2012:

• Sikari Gaon: 280
• Lason Dhunagiri: 54
• Lason Baligaon: 128
• Putsang: 102
• Panighati: 65
• Ratanpur: 17

CONTRIBUTIONS CLOSE AT 18 JULY 2012: 1800 HRS.

The field team could not proceed to Sibsagar today as there was a bandh observed due to a recent incident(http://www.sentinelassam.com/state1/story.php?sec=2&subsec=2&id=124925&… ).

While we were waiting for Sibasagar to open, we looked for other areas that are flood affected. On discussion with the district administration of Tezpur district we learnt about few villages neaby Sootea in Sonitpur district where help was required.

One more volunteer from Bangalore has been sent to assist for the relief. The volunteer has reached Tezpur district where he will be visiting Sootea headquarters tomorrow to assess the situation.

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We would like to thank everyone for the support we have been receiving on this initiative.

Our volunteers at Tezpur are trying to understand need there. However Tezpur is observing a bandh due to some local incident happening there. Market and vehicle movement is restricted in the area.

Our volunteer is constantly keeping in touch with the district administration as well as NGOs working near Sootea for more details. Villages around Sootea(nearby Tezpur) seem to be highly affected due to floods.

From the local news gathered, it was found that there was an embankment on the river which has breached the villages around Sootea. These villages were not normally affected due to floods. There is a large island which has been created where no material other than food has reached. Two days back water rose and people came back to camps. People are staying in camps or embankments. There are people There is a large island which has been created where no material other than food has reached. Two days back water rose and people came back to camps. People are staying in camps or embankments. There are people with cattle who are refusing to leave their homes as they fear their cattle would die.

Our volunteers visited flood affected villages with the Circle Officer today. Here are the findings:

• There was an embankment on Brahmaputra which got breached. The breach is more than 1 km long at places. The breach led water into areas where normally it would not have come. The result, unexpected devastation. 1 lakh people have come out of there homes in the revenue circle of Sootea alone. 52 villages are submerged.
• Our volunteers visited 20 villages with the Circle Office and the District Election Officer in an NDRF boat. Almost everywhere the roads are submerged (water more than 6-8' high). A lot of people who escaped from the village are residing on the main road at Sootea and the relief camps. The situation there is not good. Inspite of administration providing the essentials, there is dirt and filth, people are free and doing nothing, and the water is not expected to clear out soon. The area has been waterlogged for last 20 days and there is no sign of water receding.
• This area will repeatedly get flooded as the embankment will not get repaired this season.
• 120 men of NDRF are leading the relief. They are taking boats to villages and dropping supply beside rescuing people.
• The district administration have provided relief in terms of food and medicines. From the discussions, the most essential demand from the administration is for tarpauline for shelter in the flood affected areas.

With the available funds we have and more that we could add, we have gone ahead to procure 800 more tarpaulins from Guwahati which are on the way for Tezpur.

Thanks to the people who have supported us in the field to enable us reach this far. Thank you to all the contributors for providing us an opportunity to serve our countrymen who are in distress and need our support.