Akanksha Foundation, Mumbai

Dear friends,

Bihar has been hit by a terrible flood. It is one of the worst disasters to strike the country.

The scale of the disaster is much bigger than than the 2004 Tsunami, worse than the Gujarat Earthquake.

Several million people have been affected. Entire districts – villages and towns – have been washed away. The number of people dead is not even known.

Unfortunately, people think this is like the usual annual flooding, there has been very little coverage of the flooding and very little support pouring in for relief. There is an urgent need to inform people about the nature of this disaster and to mobilize support.

Though Akanksha is not involved in the relief operations or in the collection of any resources for the relief and rehabilitation of the Bihar Flood victims, two of the organisations we have worked with during the Tsunami relief operations in 2004-05, are running extensive relief and rehabilitation operations in Bihar. During 2004-05, we worked closely with these organisations both for the collection of relief materials, and also for working towards the long term rehabilitation of the victims.

1. Goonj you can check their site http://www.goonj.info/biharfloods08.php at or contact their Mumbai operations at Mr. Rohit Singh Tel.- 9322381600

2. AID India you can support their work by going to http://www.eurekachild.org/biharflood/

Please do check out their work and if you would like to support them, please contact them directly.

Regards,

The Akanksha Foundation