Today, we are pleased to announce that here we commence sharing some remarkable information about IDRF
Water Harvesting codedev
IDRF and Samerth have been greatly successful in developing Water Harvesting Structurers in the villages of Nakhatrana block.
- Pababhai Rabari- a resident of Khambhla village, looks after his cattle and is engaged in some agricultural activities. His farm land is located near the border of Mathal village. When Samerth has started the developing work at Ratnasar Talav (pond). Pababhai has visited the site on many occasions while taking his cattle for drinking water near this site. He highly praises the efforts of this development and according to him, there are about 2,500 Sheep & Goats, 200 Cows, and 300 buffalos that are able to drink water daily from this pond after its revival and development. The herds of cattle come from Mathal, Todia and Khambhala villages. According to Pababhai, this pond has a capacity to store water for the whole year after its redevelopment, and the cattle herders are extremely grateful with this redevelopment program.
Sheep Drinking water from Ratnasar Talav (Pond) in Mathal Village.
Pababhai Maldhari from Khambhala village
Kanjibhai Garva resides in Mathal village and is engaged in farming activities. His farm land is located near Chhapri Dam, near Mathal, which was developed last year. Even though this area gets meager rain fall, last year the bore well on his farm land was able to recharge water as a result of the water harvesting structure development. The water level in his borewell increased by 4 to 5 feet. So it is important to note that the water bodies developed as part of the project, not only conserve water, but also recharge the other water structures and aquifers in the surrounding areas.
Kanjibhai proudly showing his borewell with new recharge level of water
Kanjibhai’s farm land near the Chhapri Dam
Kanjibhai believes that if the monsoon season brings good rainfall this year, it will have a good impact on the farming activities in this area, and the farmers will be able to produce more crops with the recharged borewells near the pond area.
- At Aiyyar village, Samerth has developed two water harvesting structures, one for the cattle and another for the drinking purpose for the people in the community. The newly elected Sarpanch (village head) Mr. Vipulabhai Patel is a young and dynamic person, who also teaches at a college at Nakhatrana. According to him, Samerth’s support has changed the perspective of his thinking in developing water structures in this area. This village had four water structures and Samerth developed two more recently. There is also a huge check dam with voluminous water retention capacity. After Samerth’s intervention, Vipul Patel and his team have decided to file an application to the government for the development of this check dam. The villagers have completed a detailed study report of this dam with the support of engineers, and submitted the application to develop the check dam near Aiyyar village. The application is submitted to Kayla Water & Irrigation Department, Nakhatrana Block with an approximate estimate of INR 45 lakhs for the development process.
Sarpanch of Aiyyar Village (right) in conversation with Samerth official
Jammu and Kashmir Floods 2014 2
NGO: Sewa Bharti Jammu and Kashmir
IDRF partner since: 2011
- Focus Area: Jammu and Kashmir Floods 2014
- Location: Jammu and Kashmir
- Project Title: Distribution of relief material, relief checks and construction material to repair and reconstruct damaged houses
- Details: IDRF partnered with NGO Sewa Bharti Jammu and Kashmir to implement a disaster response project for the affected communities, irrespective of caste or religion. The IDRF funded disaster response project for affected communities included both short and long‐term relief measures. Along with the distribution of food and pherans (traditional woolen gowns)—to keep people warm through the winters, Sewa Bharti also distributed mobile stalls and goods, such as kangris (fire pots). In addition to supplies, relief to flood victims for the repair and construction of their damaged houses was provided both in the form of relief checks and construction materials. IDRF realized that self-reliance was the only way to somewhat stabilize the lives of the affected people. So in this regard, we sent financial grants to distribute mobile stalls including the goods for selling, so that the affected people could start earning their livelihood and bring their lives back on track.
Mobile stalls with goods and Pherans (traditional woolen gowns) given to flood victims
Check distribution to the flood victims
Distribution of traditional woolen gown (pherans) to the victims
Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh Floods 2015
NGO: Swami Vivekananda Rural Development Society (SVRDS)
IDRF partner since: 1996
- Focus Area: Rural Development Society
- Location: Andhra Pradesh & Tamil Nadu
- Project Title: Distribution of relief kits to victims, Reconstruction of damaged houses
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Details: SVRDS focused on distributing relief kits to those villages around Chennai that did not receive Government aid in time. The relief kits were distributed to about 2000 families and consisted of a steel container filled with kitchen utensils, towel, clothing (saris and dhotis) for the whole family, mats, and groceries (like rice, oil, wheat, sooji, pulses), washing powder & medicine kits, etc. With IDRF’s support, reconstruction of severely damaged houses of very poor families was done, in order to bring about normalcy in flood victims’ lives. Seven houses with built-up areas of 270 square feet were constructed to resettle the families whose houses were damaged beyond repair.
Distribution of Relief Kits to Flood Victims
Houses repaired/reconstructed for the flood victims in Tamil Nadu
NGO: Yogoda Satsanga Society of India (YSS)
Partner Since: 2002
IDRF funds to Yogoda Satsanga Society helped 8,075 families in five districts of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. Many of the families that were helped were very poor and socially deprived and had not received any form of help from other relief agencies. YSS devotees and members distributed relief kits to these people that comprised of solar re-chargeable LED lamps, bedsheets, and mats.
Relief Kits being distributed to Flood Victims
Please click on the link to learn more about Yogoda Satsanga Society’s various programs.
Nepal Earthquake 2015
NGO: Manav Seva Sansthan “SEVA”
IDRF partner since: 2013
- Focus Area: Nepal Earthquake 2015
- Location: Nepal
- Project Title: ICU setup at Kirtipur Hospital,Distribution of relief kits to victims
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Details: IDRF funds enabled Manav Seva Sansthan, based in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, to procure and distribute two types of relief-kits to 160 families in Gorkha district of Nepal: the ‘Non-food-relief items kit’, consisted of woolen blankets, clothes for the whole family and kitchen utensils. The other kit was the ‘Shelter and Hygiene kit’, which consisted of tarpaulin cloth, nylon rope needed for setting up tent and hygiene supplies like: soaps, undergarments, towel, comb, toothpaste and tooth brushes, etc
NGO: Public Health Concern Trust-NEPAL
NGO: Public Health Concern Trust-NEPAL
Partner Since: 2012
Right after the disastrous earthquake in Nepal, IDRF supporters and donors, wholeheartedly helped Kathmandu Model and Kirtipur Hospitals to serve more than 1,000 patients and 220 through surgical interventions. IDRF sent grants to establish and upgrade ICU facility and post-operative room at Kirtipur Hospital.
With IDRF and other organizations’ help, Public Health Concern Trust-Nepal was able to provide free medical and surgical care and hospital stay to the earthquake victims. Since most of the patients have lost their homes and belongings in the disaster, meals and a place to stay were also provided to their caretakers.
ICU at Kirtipur Hospital
Siachen Glacier Avalanche 2016
NGO: Youth for Seva
IDRF partner since: 2016
- Focus Area: Youth for Seva
- Location: Karnataka
- Project Title: Financial help to bereaved families of dead soldiers
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Details: Youth for Seva Youth for Seva was founded in 2007, as a nation-wide volunteering movement that inspires youth in India to volunteer and connects them to meaningful opportunities to serve the community. This organization aims to create positive change agents in the society, through the culture of volunteerism.
A group of compassionate IDRF-volunteers, based in the United States, succeeded in raising handsome amount of funds in order to provided financial help to the bereaved families of the ten dead soldiers. IDRF joined hands with Youth for Seva, a pan-India volunteering movement, by extending help to these families who are not very economically well-off and have lost their major breadwinners.
Nandiwale Babu Annappa, Athani, Belgavi
Vishwanath Bharamappa Parasannavar, Gokak, Belagavi
India Floods- 2017
NGO: Economic Rural Development Society (ERDS)
ERDS in West Bengal distributed Food Kits, each comprised of rice, flour, sugar and milk etc. to 100 flood affected families.
Devastation caused by floods in West Bengal- 2017
NGO: Gram Vikas Parishad
In Bihar, IDRF helped Gram Vikas Parishad distribute 100 Relief Kits to affected families. Each kit included: rice, flour, polythene sheets for temporary shelter, medicines and life jackets. Most of the flood ravaged villages comprise of elderly, women and children who had lost everything and were confronted with near-starvation like situation.
Distribution of Relief Kits to flood victims in Bihar
NGO: Manav Seva Sansthan
Manav Seva Sansthan distributed relief items to 100 flood affected families in eastern Uttar Pradesh. The relief items included ready to eat dry foods, non-Perishable food items like Wheat Flour, Rice, Oil, Pulses, Sugar, food containers, water filter, mosquito nets and hygiene kits. The beneficiaries included families from schedule caste, women headed families, widows and differently abled. The beneficiary families were identified in coordination with local government authorities and community members. Token based distribution mechanism was adopted to avoid duplicity and ensure full transparency. During the distribution the beneficiaries were briefed on healthy hand hygiene habits and encouraged to use toilets for defecation.
Distribution of Relief Material in Eastern Uttar Pradesh
NGO: Samerth Charitable Trust
Samerth in Gujarat distributed relief kit along with food grains to the 100 poorest of poor families living in interior parts of Gujarat. Samerth team had identified these families from 27 villages in the flood ravaged areas.
Hundreds of houses were badly damaged & acres of land got submerged under water and covered in flood-water sand. For thousands of victims in the disaster affected villages, agriculture is the only means of livelihood. Samerth has identified 80 families who have lost their livelihood as a part of the rehabilitation process. With the financial support of IDRF, Samerth has been able to help resettle the poor villagers by providing them with potter’s wheels, masonry and agriculture kits, sheep, goats, buffaloes, fodder, milk cans and sewing machines, etc.
Relief and rehabilitation work for flood victims in Gujarat
Relief and rehabilitation work for flood victims in Gujarat
West Bengal Freak Storm- 2017
West Bengal Freak Storm- 2017
IDRF partner since: 2011
- Focus Area: Economic Rural Development Society
- Location: West Bengal
- Project Title: Construction of new houses and repairs of damaged houses & livelihood provisions
- Details: The Freak storm unroofed and damaged 69 houses and the inhabitants were compelled to stay at others people’s houses or take shelter under trees. IDRF and ERDS joined hands to assist the victims and make them self-reliant once again. IDRF immediately sent two grants aggregating towards reconstruction of 31 fully damaged houses and repairs of 38 of partially damaged houses and for providing new livestock (one cow, four goats or four pigs) to 69 families in order to help them get back on their feet.
Reconstruction of house for Beneficiary- Ashalata Gosh of Majhra village in Malda District
