SERUDS appeal for humanitarian donations for flood affected victims in Andhra Pradesh, India
It has been a dreadful period for the state of Andhra Pradesh with natural calamities of one kind or another bringing death and destruction to the land. Rain havoc and rushing floods on a frightening scale. Andhra Pradesh has taken the biggest hit with 63 deaths so far, four lakh acres of agricultural land have been submerged in Andhra Pradesh and 1.6 million people evacuated. Krishna, Guntur, Nalgonda districts suffered the most in Andhra, although the towns of Kurnool, Mahabubnagar and Nandyal too presented a worrying image with waist-high water all over the urban areas. It is said Andhra Pradesh has not ever known disaster on a scale such as this. The floods in the Krishna River since 1 October 2009, have been described as the rarest one that could occur once in 10,000 years.
SERUDS has initiated assisting the flood affected communities in Kurnool and Mahabub Nagar Districts of Andhra Pradesh. SERUDS would like to utilize the donations to arrange the following:
Household items like blankets, towels and utensils
Medical, health, nutritional clothing, psycho-social needs of children in need
Educational Material kits to the school going children
Hut Construction / Repairs of destructed houses belong to poorer communities.
Biscuits for Children
Restoration of livelihoods of the deserving families
Donations made to SERUDS for the purpose are entitled for tax exemption u/s 80G, 12A. We would be happy to issue the donation certificate on receipt of any donation. Hence we request all the resident Indian to donate generously:
Inadequate Shelter: Most of these displaced people are now living on the roads and common lands and other higher areas mostly without any shelter and other basic needs. Lack of proper shelter always has problems from poisonous insects like snakes and other such other life-killing animals. Affected families are currently staying with relatives or in communal buildings, while only very few have made some sort of temporary structure with available material.
Its important to point out that a significant group of the general population have lighter damages to their house (crack in walls or floors, sand/mud inside etc..) regardless of the construction type. All of these would also require repair and cleaning, even though the damages are not as severe as the ones described above.
The pattern of destruction the level of damage to houses in Kurnool district seems greater due to the sudden onset and force of the “flash flood”. During the assessment, visits were made to areas of Kurnool where whole communities were more or less washed away (including concrete houses)
The provision of temporary shelters and support to families to start cleaning up is also essential for creating some sort of normalcy for children and keeping the family and community support structures intact. To get people engaged in their own recovery as soon as possible is also vital for their own mental wellbeing and as a way of dealing with the current stress and pressure they are under.
SERUDS has commendable experience and expertise in rescue, relief, rehabilitation and rebuilding experience for the last one decade. SERUDS established its partnerships with GIVE INDIA, Dhanalaxmi Bank, Numbers only-IT Company, DAV Public School and individual philanthropists in providing relief, rehabilitation and rebuilding of Flood affected families in Kurnool District. The SERUDS teams made a short term study to under stand the impact and need of immediate services in the flood affected area. According to the emerged needs SERUDS organised medical camps in different worst affected areas and provided health services to 450 members with the partnership of individual philanthropists. A number of good practices has been evolved in Community based Disaster Management programs and Disaster Risk Reduction initiatives
Vessels/storage for clean water at Household level Halogen tablets/water purification at
household level Health and hygiene promotion Rehabilitation of water and
sanitation systems ( 10 Toilets)
5000
185
925000
3
Resuming children’s Education
Cleaning up schools and ICDS premises
Replace text/work books/teaching and learning material/ school uniforms Provision of school material and TLM
for children and teachers Rehabilitate water and sanitation
facilities and undertake hygiene promotion Back to school campaigns mobilizing
communities and government Promotion of Disaster Risk Reduction
(DRR) Provision of TLM and lobby for
replacing food supplies for ICDS and mobilizing parents for sending their
children back to the centres (address livelihoods) –see separate
heading
1500
738
1107000
4
Livelihoods
Repairs of assets/equipment/tools for specialized trades
Removal of sand/silt on farm land Alternative income opportunities for
daily wage laborers.
Budget for Flood Relief is given below
