BIHAR FLOOD (2008)

CF worked in partnership with Rotary Mahanagar as ‘Together, we Will’, and was responsible for building 500 homes on Hut Be island, for Tsunami survivors in 2005. (Rupees fifty lacs were raised at a fund-raiser, attended by Steve Waugh, in February 2005.)

Calcutta Foundation came into action, once again, soon after the devastating floods, which ravaged Bihar recently. This group came together again and collected huge quantities of relief material, such as dry food, medicines, drinking water and clothes.  6 truck-loads full of relief material collected locally was sent to PURNIA, in Malda Dist, for the flood-affected people who had taken shelter in a large school, there.

2000 shelter kits were put together, which was handed over to 2000 families affected by floods, to help them start their lives a fresh, once they came back to dry land. The German Consulate approached Calcutta Foundation to help them collect 1,000 Shelter Kits for the flood victims of Bihar. The balance was sponsored by friends of CF and Rotary.

One aluminium trunk given per family contained, amongst other small items, the following:

2  squares tarpaulin	1bucket
4 thick bed spreads	1 mug
4 steel plates	Washing Soap
4 steel glasses	1 bath soap
1 kerosene stove	1 tin toothpowder
1 lantern	Cothes for men, women and children
1 10–litre  jerry can for water	2 towels
1 5-litre jerry can for kerosene	10 candles
4 cooking utensils	12 match boxes
1 mosquito net	1 roll of rope

The trunks were packed at P 19, Belegrata Main Road, Kolkata 700 014, premises for an eye hospital, planned by Rotary Mahanagar.  Volunteers from Kolkata worked with volunteers in Bihar for distribution of relief material, and Shelter Kits, round the clock, for days on end