Serve All Beings As Service to God - Bhagavad Ramanucharya's mission

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Help provided by volunteers for first 8 days after the 26th July deluge to flood

devastated people of Mumbai and Kokan Region.

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Mumbai

 

1. Help Centres : 22

2. Hamlets : 76

3. Helped Families : 80,000 people of 17,000 families

3. Cleaning & Conserving : 35 Dumper Garbage cleaning.

22 hamlets - Cleaning / fumigation and water purification

 

4. Emergency Housing : For 2 days - 10 places

 

For 6 days - 6 places

 

5. Distribution of Grains : 20 tonnes

 

6. Supply of plastic sheets: 400 families

 

7. Mats & Bedsheets : 2000 people

 

8. Medical Help : Medicare centers for 5 days - one

 

4 days - one

 

Medical camps - 8

 

`Chlorovat' for water purification – 3,000 bottles (1 per Family)

 

9. Food Supply : 2000 people for 5 days

 

Biscuit Packets - 1 gross Bread - 4,000 loafs

 

Tea & Sugar - 135 kg. Milk - 4,000 Litre

 

10.Volunteers : 1,200 Swayamsevaks

 

11. Other Highlights :

 

• Removal of debris, boulders & muck at Sakinaka land slide site

 

• Similar removal of debris at Mandala (Chembur), B.A.R.C. Labour

colony.

 

• Safe passage provided to 250 commuters from Ghatkopar to Thane by

Vikroli Nagar Secretary from

 

his own vehicle.

 

• Providing boarding & lodging in Swayamsevaks own houses for 500

people of Prabodhan Nagar &

 

Unnatnagar whose houses had submerged.

 

• Provision of boarding & lodging for 200 people belonging to Aappa

Pada-Malad by Harishchandra

 

Yadav, Nagar Sanghchalak at his factory and at his house both of

which had submerged in the

 

flood.

 

• 10 families of Mahakali Shantinagar were looked after at

swayamsevak's residence.

 

Thane, Raigad & Ratnagiri Region

 

1. Help Centres : 31

 

2. Villages provided

 

with help : 135 villages, 34 hamlets & 13,152 families.

 

3. Food Supply : 77,250 people for 2 to 3 days.

 

Food packets for 600 travellers of `Mangala Express'.

 

4. Distribution of Grains : Grains - 25 tonnes Oil - 2,000 kg.

 

5. Mats & Bedsheets : 6800 people

 

6. Clothing : 17,000 people

 

7. Utensil Kits : For 2,000 families

 

8. Cleaning &

 

Conserving : Cleaning & fumigation at Thane, Kalyan, Dombivali &

Chiplun.

 

14 Truck load of Garbage.

 

45 volunteers Cleaned & sweeped the mud filled Mahad Market area

Chiplun

 

areas for 3 days.

 

9. Medical Help : 26 villages – 11,650 people

 

17 doctors worked for 2 to 3 days non-stop

 

Water purification – 8,000 bottles of `Chlorovat'

 

10.Volunteers : 1,315 Swayamsevaks

 

11. Other Highlights :

 

• Help to Govt. surveys at Kalyan, Dombivali

 

• Rajaram Patil, Sangh Swayamsevak single handedly saved many women

and children from

 

Kalyan (East) Chawl & provided succour at his own residence.

 

• Cremation of 30 bodies at the request of Kalyan-Dombivali Police

by Swayamsevaks.

 

• Opening of fair price shop at Titwala to overcome price hikes by

local shopkeepers.

 

• At Ulhasnagar, Taluka Secretary though not knowing swimming saved

a woman and her two

 

children from 8 ft. deep gorge.

 

• At Badlapur 65 people were saved from watery grave who were

drifting in a flood current.

 

• At Dudhani landslide Matheran hill locale swayamsevaks climbed by

rapling with the help of

 

`Nisarg Mantri Mandal' & gave initial help.

 

• At Veldur Tal. Guhagar – Two Muslim Fishermen Societies brought

130 family kits consisting of

 

utensils, mats, bedsheets to RSS Office. They requested that the

distribution of these material

 

should be undertaken by Sangh workers only. The first 10 families

were given these kits in their

 

presence. The workers of the fisherman societies offered further

help whenever necessary.

 

• At Chiplun the Sangh Office was converted in to a Control Centre.

The govt. officers and municipal

 

employees were directing all those requiring help to this office

saying that, if you require urgent help, contact Sangh Office.