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.

 

Life on embankments..

Darafga embankment is providing shelter to more than a thousand families who could not make  it to the

larger government camps.

Their temporary shelter is made of bamboo sticks supporting clothes or plastic sheets as canopy. Almost

all the huts have a raised platform inside as water is almost kissing the top of embankment..a rise of one feet of water can turn ugly for these folks.

To come in & go out from the embankment one has to either cross waist deep water or use country boats

Updates day 37-41

Dear friends,
Apologies for the delay in updates. I was traveling to relief camps in Nepal (Bhimnagar & Hamuman nagar) and India ( Trivenigunj, Katihar,Baidhnathpur & Saharsa)

We have received the following between sep24- sep-29th 2k8;

Apologies for the delay.

The following consignments have been received between Sep 25- 29

From Vivek Pandey,Bangalore

• Torchlights 60 pc with batteries (Eveready citylight) ~60 pc
• Cerelac Baby food ~ 58 packs
• Paracetamol tablets ~ Calpol, 1000 tablets

From V.R Bhalla
R.P.Jain Road
Juhu,
Mumbai -49

• Cerelac Baby food 240 packs ~ 110 KG~ 14 cartons

From Capegemini, Bangalore

• Clothes 21 cartons
• Foodgrain 1carton
• Biscuits and sugar 1 carton

Thank you all .. it would have been very difficult to carry on without your support.

t&r,
`chandan
+919931763070