Emergency Supplies for 1,000 Indian Families

Summary

Provide emergency supplies such as food, blankets, sheets, and fishing tools to villagers affected by tsunami.

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $2,775 was raised for this project.

Received $2,775 from 4 donations from people like:

More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The government has temporarily banned fishing in this area so residents need food aid and basic supplies to provide for their families.

Activities

Teams will provide emergency food rations, blankets, and sheets for victims of the tsunami. In addition they will assist with evacuation efforts and repairing the nets and boats of villagers who rely on fishing for subsistence.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $2,775

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $2,775.  The original project funding goal was $25,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Resources

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Rations will be provided for 1,000 families and the equipment repairs will attempt to reach the 650 families that have lost their nets and boats in the disaster.

Project Message

This may be the worst natural disaster in recent history because it is affecting so many heavily populated coastal areas.
- Jan Egeland, U.N. Emergency relief coordinator

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Pushpa Singh,
Project Contact
816, City Centre
Udhna-Magdalla Road
Surat 395 002, Gujarat 400093
India
91 261 2631831
Email:

Project Sponsor

Give India

Organization

Give India
301, New India Indust. Estate
Off Mahakali Caves Rd.
Andheri (E), Mumbai, Maharashtra, INDIA 400093
India
91-22-2687 8774/75
http://www.giveindia.org/give/common/HomePageAction.do#

Learn more about Give India and the project team.


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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in India and can also be found under Health.

For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.

When this Project was Updated

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on December 28, 2004.