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Subject: [narmada_andolan] MOST URGENT APPEAL FOR VOLUNTEERS TO REACH BIHAR
KOSHI NAV NIRMAN ABHIYAN
URGENT APPEAL FOR VOLUNTEERS TO REACH BIHAR
MORE DOCTORS & PARA MEDICS NEEDED IN AFFECTED AREAS
Dear Friends,
Through our regular updates, we have repeatedly been appealing to all of
you to identify and inform us of VOLUNTEERS AND MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS’ who
are keen to assist with the relief activities in the Kosi calamity
affected areas of Bihar.
We are constantly reminding you of this, as even today is a DESPERATE AND
URGENT NEED FOR MORE and more of them at various camps all over.
To this day, there are lots of villages where the Government relief has
simply not reached and thousands are lying unattended, be in the
Kumarkhand block and Murliganj area in Madhepura district or in the camps
at Raghopur and Pratapganjat Supaul district or the Ramnagar camp in
Purnia District, with an inmate capacity of about 4500, where minimal
Government services are just beginning to reach. At places like Ramnagar,
we are both mounting pressure on the Govt.as well as trying to reach out
with support from our side, considering the urgency of the requirements.
In different districts, Kosi Chunauti, Kosi Nav Nirman Abhiyan, including
NAPM, NBA, Asha Parivar, Sathi-Cehat, Shilip Kendra, IMA etc. and Manav
Seva Sanstha are constantly engaging with the Govt.Hospital Civil Surgeon
and the District Magistrate and administration.
Volunteers and medical support workers are needed immediately to:
? Assist with the mobile clinics and medical aid work at the camps
? Assist with data collection and concrete survey of families in the
camps as well as on the canals.
? Help identify and relink missing persons and property
? Assist with a few educational activities for the children and inmates
at the camps
? Provide support to the information centre that we, along with Swati
from Parivartan and others are in the process of establishing, for
providing varied information to people.
? Help with relief distribution and mobilizing resources
? Helping with regular errands like making purchases, documenting
activities etc.
Our team of relief workers also celebrated Id along with the inmates at
the Islampur camp, located at Banmanki where the people affected in
Madhepura are staying. Activists of Asha Parivar / NAPM are working at
Bihariganj where the Government had claimed on its website that a camp was
fully functional, whereas in reality, the Govt. camp simply did not exist!
Kosi Nav Nirman Abhiyan and other groups are also planning to being an
informal training process for para-medics and other volunteers, in the
Purnia district from the 5th of October. including supporting anganwadi
and mobile clinic activities.
Any of you interested or know someone who is keen to volunteer may kindly
contact the below and reach Bihar in the next 2-3 days.
Your involvement and assistance is awaited by hundreds of people
Amula Nidhi Raj Kumar Sinha Pervin Jehangir Medha Patkar
(09425311547) (09424385139 (09820636335)
nba.medha@gmail.com(09905275500) (09852812980)