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| Relief efforts |
| • | Food packets/ water first three days |
| • | Followed by used clothes (stopped quickly!) |
| • | Coordinated earthmovers for body/ debris removal, lighting towers, body decomposition chemicals, water purification tablets, and disinfectants for cleaning up villages (with TTK-LIG & GSDMA, Gujarat) |
| • | Dispatched cooking rations and kitchen kits, new clothes, stoves, etc. to over 13,000 families |
| • | Coordinated medicines, counselors, doctors, volunteers, etc. |
| • | Provided back office support to Nagapattinam NGO coordination center |
| • | Organized information exchange meetings among NGOs, corporates, donors, U.N. agencies, and the Tamil Nadu Government |
| • | Issued periodic updates, widely read by people outside Tamil Nadu |
| • | Our unique role: matching needs with availability |
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| People's Early Response... |
| Dec 26: |
Panic, Food Packets, water |
| Dec 27: |
Scale of disaster sinks in |
| Dec 28: |
Survivors in community halls |
| Dec 29: |
Start dry ration kits, new clothes drive |
| Dec 30: |
Experienced NGOs arrive on site |
| Dec 31: |
On-site admin welcome their input; |
| No New Year's Eve parties in Tamilnadu |
| Jan 1: |
NGO coordination cell meetings begin |
| Jan 1: |
Focus on stoves, undergarments, mats |
| Jan 2: |
Bhoomika calls a major info/ exchange meeting in Chennai with all parties, including Govt. |
| Jan 3: |
Recommendations to Government. by Community/ NGO Leaders
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| Encourages 'Partnerships', not 'Adoption' of villages |
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Meetings with fisherfolk communities |
| Jan 5: |
Survivors start back to some villages |
| Jan 6: |
Govt. policy on child adoptions |
| Jan 7: |
Looking for unfulfilled gaps in Relief |
| Jan 8: |
Govt. policy on Interim Shelters |
| Jan 9: |
Reports of communities missed by Relief |
| Jan 15: |
T.N. Govt. issues Public-Private Partnership order |
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| What has Gone Right... |
| • | Overwhelming response from citizens |
| • | Unprecedented NGO-Corp-Govt-Donor Coordination in providing Relief |
| • | Credible job by the T.N. Government |
| • | Corporate/ International Generosity |
| • | Some lessons applied from past disasters |
| • | Donors willing to stay engaged in long-term rehabilitation |
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| Issues and Concerns |
| • | Uneven distribution of Relief supplies |
| • | Extent of 'Affected Communities' not fully understood--focus on fisherfolk making others less visible? |
| • | Some lessons from past disasters not learnt (e.g. need for rapid damage assessment by a 'neutral' party) |
| • | 'Desire to Help' overwhelming some communities-i.e. creating Relief dependency? |
| • | Risk of a 'supply-driven' rehabilitation program? |
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| Contact Us |
Apt 3A, Jeyamkondar Apartments,
New No 40, Murrays Gate Road,
Alwarpet, Chennai 600 018.
Tamilnadu, India.
Telephone: +91-44-2498-1967
Hotline: 094444-51267/ 68
Fax: 044-2466-0562
Email : bhoomikaindia@yahoo.co.in |
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| Registered Office |
32, Karpagam Avenue 1st street
Chennai 600 028.
Tamilnadu, India. |
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