Pratapgunj & beyond..

Pratapgunj

Distribution of woolen clothes and shawl for women and children was undertaken at Tokana village. It is one of the closest villages which can be reached by boat (3km away from Pratapgunj). Lots of aadivasi families live in these areas and are in need of warm clothes. We distributed 200 sets of warm clothes for children and 100 woolen shawls in this village. Earlier we had distributed 300 blankets to people from this area who collected the same from Pratapgunj camp.

It gets dark around 4.30- 5.00 pm in these areas, and its getting colder by each passing day.

Some of these poor children do not have even basic clothes..& most of them have no woolens.
No house, no clothes,no blankets ...and around three months of meagre food & shelter. They are hanging on ..hope is all that's keeping them afloat.

Navigating back to base camp (Pratapgunj) in almost total darkness. Reassuring thing is that the river is not deep, although at places there is strong current . Lots of bugs too.

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Blanket distribution- Pratapgunj

Acknowledgement signature or thumb impression of beneficiaries helps us map the requirement chart of the area. Beneficiaries names, along with their address & relief materials accepted or needed help us in identifying households where more relief is needed.

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Blanket distribution, Daria Ashram, Pratapgunj

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Many villages east of Pratapgunj are accessible only by boat. The biggest problem is transporting relief materials to these places.
Here, we take relief materials (Blankets,woolen clothes,medicine, baby food) by small boats from Pratapgunj to Tokana

This packet containing baby food was sent to us about a month back by a student of Indus School Bangalore, and was lost during our relief effort at Kumarkhund on a boat. As luck would have it,while meeting volunteers at Madhepura en route to Pratapgunj, a boatman came to us and gave this packet to us. He had kept it safe for about a month, knowing that these were for flood victims. We couldn't thank him enough as it had baby food which was needed at Pratapgunj. Tells you a lot about these wonderful people who have helped us for more than three months now. Heart warming stuff.

Acharya Ji & Srikant Ji had gone ahead of us and distributed the coupons; they have all been very helpful.. each & every time we needed them, they were ready and willing..

We are boating in a field...imagine that ! The new kosi has lost weight but still very much present in these areas.