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Koshi Floods

To help the residents of India and Nepal recover from the monsoon floods along the Koshi River and allow people around the world to keep up-to-date on the relief efforts, we’ve pulled together some mapping resources below. Additionally, you can read the latest news on recovery efforts on Google News.

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Maps

• Disaster Charter
• DLR - Center for Satellite Bases Crisis Information
• Relief Point - River Kosi Breach Point
• UNOSAT

How you can help

We'd like to call attention to some of them so that you can get involved, offer support or learn more about the effects of the floods.

• Save the Children is distributing food and clean water while attempting to reunite displaced children with their parents who are dispersed throughout the relief camps. Read moreor donate to help.
• Project Concern is providing water purification, storage supplies, soap and basic amenities and operating motorized boats for rescue missions in the region. Read more or donate to help.
• The American Indian Foundation is working with the local government and other regional organizations to secure safe drinking water and facilitate information between those displaced. Read more or donate to help.
• Catholic Relief Services is providing those in dire need with ready-to-eat foods, purification tablets and tarps for transitional shelter. Read more or donate to help.
• The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent is working with the India Red Cross Society to distribute medicine and coordinating the delivery of tents to the affected regions to serve as temporary housing. Read more or donate to help.

Kosi Maa, do not stray

Finally, I found a blogger who is blogging from the place itself. Thank you, Sudipto.

Its a blog by one of our friends Pushyamitra who is there in North-east Bihar region and writing his experience everyday.

Please visit http://biharbaadh.blogspot.com/ to have an account of true mayhem.

The disaster in North-eastern Bihar is not just a flood, but its a serious natural calamity of changing of path of a river. This calamity has caused 40 lakh people displaced and homeless for about two years, until the dam is repaired and river goes back to its old path. In such condition unless each District of whole country reaches out for helping aid the rehabilitation of displaced is not possible. There is no such campaign running to support or provide aids to the people as in previous natural calamities. Possibly because of declaration of Central Government of providing aid of Rs1000 Crore. Though, this package for 24 lakh displaced persons would be very insufficient, as this also includes the repair of dam and relief campaign. In such case, there is less than Rs.2,000/- per person would be available for relief and rehabilitation. This becomes our responsibility to help them and shows our humanity towards other human being.

HELP

If you want to help them, then you can collect the relief material and send to us or, you are welcome to affected area to distribute your relief material among flood victims. We assure you to help in all the possible ways at local level. Details of urgently needed relief Matterials as below :

Food Materials : Drinking water, Clorine tablets, Rice, Pulse, Salt, Spices, Haldi, Flour, Potato, Onion, Salt, Chura (Poha), Gud (Shakkar), Sugar, Tea, Mustard oil, Vegetable oil, Ghee, Dalda, infant baby's milk, powder, Dermicool Powder, Bottle and Nipple, Horlicks, Health Drink, chocolate, Soyabin burri, Besan burri, Sewai, Biscuit, Namkeen, Mixture, Chips, Pestry, Papad, Noodles, Sattu or Gram.

Medicines :Health checkup kits, Diarrhoea Medicine, Cough syrup, Medicine for fever, Medicine for Malneutrition, Cotton, Bandage, Skin Cream, Quadriderm cream, Savlon, Antiseptic Cream,First Aid Medicines etc.

Kitchen Matteial : Tava, pateela, Handi, Karahi, Balti, Mug, Belan-Chauki, Thali, Glass, Katori, Plastic Dubba (of 10,5 and 1 KG)

Cloths : Saari, Petikot & Nara, Blouse, Dhoti, Lungi, Gamchhi (Towel), Half & Full pant, T-Shirt, full Shirt, Salwar Suit, Dupatta.

Kids cloths: Napkin, Cotton Cloth (White & coloured) Cosmatics : Hair oil, Soap, Detergent cake and powder, Hair band and rubber, Mirror, Comb, Sindur, Bindi, Bangle, Baby's Powder, Oil and Soap, Baby's Napkin, Cotton Cloth, Toys for Baby. Other things : Mombatti (Wax), Matchbox, Torch, Battery, Mosquito Coils with Stand, Plastic Sheets, Rope, Plastic Bags, shoes, shoks, Slipper (Hawai Chappal), Designed tent for temparory latrin, Dari, Chadar, Pillow, bed, bed sheet, forlding coat, Toys for Kids, Umbrella, Lalten & Coal Stove (if possible). Hoping your positive response very soon.

Contacts :

Vinay Tarun (Sr. Sub-Editor, Hindustan, Bhagalpur) - 09234702353

Pushymitra (Sr. Sub-Editor, Hindustan, Bhagalpur)- 09430862739

Ajit Singh (Documentary Film Maker, Bhopal)- 09893122102

Raju Kumar (Bureau Chief, India Press Agency, Bhopal) - 09893252617

Sachin Shrivastava (Dainik Bhaskar, Bhopal)- 09977296039

Basu Mitra (State Resorce Center, Bhopal) - 09826617643

Sandip Naik (State Co-ordinator, The Hunger Project, Bhopal) - 09425919221

Indu Saraswat (Co-ordinator, Bachpan Project, NIWCYD, Bhopal) 09425030307

Ashendra Bhadauriya (Sr. Journalist, Bhopal) 09425782254

Email - biharbaadh@gmail.com

O Goddess Kosi, please calm down

I wonder how it must feel to become homeless, to lose my furniture, my computer, my mobile phone, my kitchen stuff, my clothes? And all I have to blame is a moody river?

It is not enough to give money, there is so much stuff in all our homes that can find its way to those who would actually use it.

My sister told me that if we give a carton, or a box to the railway station, any railway station in India, they have it sent to Bihar. I am not sure if this is true, but since Lallu Prasad Yadav is the railway minister, it is quite possible.

For those of us who don't watch tv, here is a comprehensive video I found on You tube: