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Send Disaster Relief to Bangladesh Cyclone Victims
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More Information About this ProjectProject Needs and BeneficiariesIDEX is working with our local grantees in Bangladesh to provide emergency relief. Cyclone Sidr destroyed homes and devastated crops. Some 500,000 homes have been destroyed, and 845,000 households have been affected, according to the British Red Cross. Survivors are now struggling for basic necessities like shelter, rice, medicine and clean water. Families in this region survive on their crops and with these gone they are fast running out of food, and have no access to clean, potable water. ActivitiesIDEX will use the funds to buy rice, pulses (beans and peas) and water purification tablets to provide emergency food, salt, saline and clean water to 6000 families (30,000 people). Each person will receive two meals per day for five days. Funding InformationTotal Funding Received to Date: $1,520 Funding InformationThis 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 $1,520. The original project funding goal was $16,500. Additional DocumentationThis project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc). ResourcesWhy this Project is ImportantPotential Long Term Impact6000 families will have their immediate food and water needs met, providing greater immunity from disease that occurs in humanitarian crises and sustaining them while they evaluate and assess how to rebuild their lives. Project Message
We are in trouble due to this disaster… heavy rainfall and wind blow. Crops are almost destroyed, bamboo house are in bad condition. We are in action but we need more to save our people. Who is Running This ProjectContact
Katherine Zavala, Project SponsorOrganization
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For more information about Bangladesh, read the Human Development Report on Bangladesh or the Wikipedia entry for Bangladesh. When this Project was UpdatedLast UpdatedThis project was last updated on March 06, 2008. Date Added to GlobalGivingThis project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 20, 2007. Latest Update from the FieldMarch 2008 UpdateBy Katherine Zavala - Program Coordinator, March 06, 2008 05:46 PM
Cyclone floodwaters submerged more than fifty percent of the country under water in 2007. The high amount of rain in Bangladesh caused sudden over flow of water across all rivers, and specifically, paddy lands. Transport among cities also stopped in many part of the country. Read 1 more "Updates from the Field" | Comment on this update How Else You Can HelpShare and Save |
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