Urgent Requirement
- We need the following items urgently. Our volunteers are going to Sunderban area on 5th June. So we are trying to collect as much as possible before that.
- Old Clothes, Curtains
- Medicines
- Blankets - Bed sheets, bed covers, old curtains, etc.
- Plastic/tarpaulin sheets
- Buckets (to store drinking water)
- Utensils - Plates/thala
- Sanitary napkins
- Water purifiers (zeoline/tablets)
- Dry & packed food items- biscuits, glucose (glucon D), etc.
Saline, ORS
- We need doctors urgently. If you are a doctor or can arrange a team of doctors to visit the cyclone hit areas then please do contact us at:
- Shayan Ahmad Khan - +91-9883395449
- Satabdi Das - +91-9632247100
- Debolina - +91-9836922336
- Prithviraj - +91-9830481370
Collection Points in Kolkata
- Jadavpur - Rahul Chauhan (+91-9831951524)
- Park Circus / Saltlake - Debolina (+91-9836922336)
- Garahat / Rajpur - Prithviraj (+91-9830481370)
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Urgent appeal for millions affected by
Cyclone AILA in India
As of Wednesday, 27 May 2009, more than 200 people are reported dead and an estimated 3 million displaced from their homes by Cyclone Aila that made landfall in eastern India on Sunday, May 25.
Please visit AID's site for regular updates from the ground. Rs. 10 Lakhs (Rs 1 million) has already been approved for Baikanthapur Tarun Sangha (BTS) working in the Sundarban region to provide food, water and temporary shelter to the affected.
According to the Press Trust of India (PTI), 13 districts in the state of West Bengal have been hit. However, the islands in the ecologically diverse Sunderbans delta have borne the brunt of the cyclone.
Those displaced are suffering acutely due to lack of food and clean water. "There is water everywhere. We could reach aid to only 10 percent of the affected population. We could not even airdrop food packets because of the flooding," Kanti Ganguly, West Bengal state minister for Sundarbans, told Reuters, as quoted in the Washington Post.
This is an hour we all must come together and show our wholehearted support for the cyclone victims. It is critical that the immediate needs such as food, clean water and medicine are provided to those affected.
AID is a volunteer movement, and a registered non-profit charitable organization. All donations are tax exempted under 80G of the Income Tax Act, 1961 and receipts will be issued. For online donation please click here.
Thanks to the support of the community AID has helped support relief and rehabilitation work following natural and human-made disasters, in various parts of India, including Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Orissa, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Assam. We worked with the flood relief in Bihar in 2008 and with the Tsunami relief effort since 2004.
Right now AID is actively working with several partner organizations in West Bengal for relief and rehabilitation of the survivors. It is committed ensure that the funds get dispatched at the earliest.
We hope you will help us maximize the support we can provide as quickly as possible. The need is dire and we all must act with the greatest possible urgency to rush aid and relief to those affected.
For further information on Cyclone Aila, please visit the following links:
AID INDIA Relief Work: http://aidindia.org/main/content/category/36/281/407/
Contact Details for
Donating & Voluntereing
Kolkata:
Shayan Ahmad Khan - +91-9883395449
Satabdi Das - +91-9632247100
Debolina - +91-9836922336
Prithviraj - +91-9830481370
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