Flood Disaster Response at Tamil Nadu, S.India

REPORT TITLE: FLOOD DISASTER RESPONSE AT CHENNAI SLUM STUDENTS

PROJECT TITLE: FLOOD DISASTER RESPONSE AT TAMILNADU, S.INDIA

PROJECT SITE: KANNAGI NAGAR, CHENNAI

TARGET COMMUNITY: SLUM STUDENTS YOUNG MEN & WOMEN

 At Kannagi Nagar, Chennai for the Students, Young men and Women Disaster Management Training Programme and detailed explanation with practical demonstration was convened.

SELF MOTIVATION TRAINING:

In Kannagi Nagar area after the rain flood, they are living in this area have occupied the slum clearance Board housing units. Every year during the rainy season these vulnerable community are heavily affected. It was needed to train them how they should protect themselves and how to prepare themselves against the disaster every day. The reason for this is the lack of knowledge for the people in this area. Therefore every year people in this area are affected severely. Therefore the people in this area must have the self confidence for protecting themselves and they must create the confidence for themselves and developing the same further confidence to develop their positive attitude and their mind must be ready to face the disaster at any time? In this manner they were provided Psychological Training and Disaster Management Training. Likewise in the earlier times we need not worry about the Disaster Management. Both the Govt. and non – Government organizations provide the Disaster Management Awareness training Programmes, being sought the slum community themselves who are in the need of acquiring Training for them. As a part of this programme we visited the people in this area and prepared them psychologically towards this Training Programme. During the earlier times we had no any distant communication equipments. That is why we were not able to know about the disaster and even we did not acquire the knowledge when the disaster will affected the particular area. As we had no any awareness and preparedness towards the disaster. So we had met many disasters, damages and losses heavily. Now days we have the Televisions, Radios, Mobile phone etc. Through these Medias with the help of satellites we are able to know the timing of the disasters and their defects. That is why we can make some earlier fore warnings and earlier arrangements to protect us from the heavy rain, Flood, Tremors, Tsunami like cyclone etc.

EARLY WARNING:

          At first we must find the locations of the houses in this area and they must be shown in the Ven Diagram (Sociological research Tool) clearly. It we divide the houses into varieties such as huts, tailed houses, concrete building, Apartments etc. Also we must know clearly about people living in this area. We must know also in which houses vulnerable elder community are living. And also it is necessary for us to know about the discussed people, alternative skilled people and children. During the time of the disaster it would be helpful to lead them properly according to their need and necessity. These particulars must be noted clearly and a chart must be prepared to find the necessity clearly at anytime and it would be helpful to carry them to the places of protection. Before the occurrence of the disaster we must have found the places of protection for their stay. Especially these places must be in the top positions. Then only it would not be affected with the flood, cyclone etc. It must be informed to the people in ahead of time. Also we must gather the young men in the disaster affected area and provide them Disaster Management Training to them. Then only they can be ready to help the victims properly. Also we must keep a board or thick sheet containing Emergency Phone Numbers visibly in a centre location of the people.

FIRST AID TRAINING THROUGH VARIOUS BANDAGE TECHNIQUES:  

          After the occurrence of the disaster many vulnerable community including patients would be found injured or found fainted or unconscious. We can help them with the necessary articles we have in our houses. This was taught to the trainees with the practical demonstration. If somebody gets injured on head, we can take a dhoty or saree or an half saree or a nap kin and tear the same into a small piece and fold the same to four layers, keep the same upon the injury, press it, with a help of a long narrow cloth make a bandage surrounding his or her head, so that we can avoid the much bleeding to the person injured. As soon as we find such an injured person, we must make a phone call to Ambulance by dialing No. 108, and inform the incident with the address. If a person gets injured by breaking of a tree branch or demolition of a house and is found bone fractured on and or leg on both the sides of the fracture we shall keep to scales or 2 long sticks and tightly make a bandage surrounding the fracture, so that we can help him to feel better about the injury. If somebody is found in the unconscious condition, at first must check him or her whether he or she is alive. We can check by keeping our fingers upon the wrist or temples of the fore head, neck or lower portion of the jaw or left side of the chest and so on. If a person’s heart beat is found stopped we can make pressure upon the chest of the fainted person or gentle attack without fist upon this or her chest, he or she will come to the conscious condition. Also we can breathe our air into his / her mouth. Then he / she will begin to breathe and the heart beat will begin.

RECOVERY FROM FIRE ACCIDENT:  

          If any fire accident is found during the time of disaster we must pour out the pure water upon the fire injury because our body has many layers. Force of the fire shall not damage the bone by passing the layers of our body muscle. That is why we need to cool the fire injured portion of the body with the help of. If a person is caught off by fire we must spread the cotton bed sheet or thick cloth upon him so as to avoid the spreading of fire further. Being surrounding his body with the bed sheet we must roll on his body upon the floor gently. Then his body must be covered with cold water. Even though the fire quenched, the heat of the fire would have affected the inner organs such as heart, liver, kidney, spleen etc. Then that person must be laid upon plantain leaf and we need to make a phone call for Ambulance. In that manner Disaster Management Training accomplished.

REPORT TITLE:CAPACITY BUILDING TRAINING ON FIRST AID

PROJECT TITLE: FLOOD DISASTER RESPONSE AT TAMILNADU,S.INDIA.

PROJECT SITE:HOLY CROSS HOME SCIENCE COLLEGE,THOOTHUKUDI

PROJECT GROUP:GIRLS COLLEGE STUDENTS

Disaster Management Awareness Training Lectureship Programme was held at the Meeting Hall, Holy Gross Home Science Women College National Service Scheme Project Officer presided over this programme in the presence of Professor,Nutrition Dept. and Prof,English Dept. In this programme Project Manager Global Giving aided Chevalier Roche Society project, Co-ordinator, Chevalier Roche Society participated and provided the Training for the students in the Holy Gross Home Science Women College, Thoothukudi. During this Training Programme following explanations were given in detail.

1. Types of disasters and various defects made by them were explained in detail.
2. Particularly it was explained how the Flood Disaster are formed. Regarding the damages of lives and materials being caused by that was explained
3. It was also explained through video show the causes for the formation of floods
4. Causes for the most of the floods, such as continuous rainfall, damage of dams. Big tanks and lakes were explained in detail.
5. By the encroachments water path routes and due to the non-maintenance of canals, streams the flood water enters in to the domestic areas cause damages of lives and materials it was explained with the video shows and past incidents.
6. Village, location of the village, its low lying areas and slum areas must be in continuous supervision. It was explained clearly to the students participated in the programme
7. It was explained about what type of activities students must involve in order to reduce the defects of the flood Disaster
8. Very week aged people are alternative abled women, children and lepers and they must be given special importance and they shall be recovered without delay. It was emphasized clearly.
9. When the seasonal rain starts bid tanks, lakes, dams and streams must be supervised continually and they must be kept in protected condition without any damage. In order to do so gunny bags must be ready in member to do the prevention activities.
10. Trainees were asked to plant the trees at the banks of the water resources in order to avoid soil erosion.
11. They were also informed to form Village Level Disaster Management Groups and the ways of the groups to be conducted and who would be the members in those groups.
12. Identification of safety places and the evacuation routes for the protected places should be identified and they must be announced to the whole community in the local places of the disaster.
13. Emergency phone numbers for Fire service & Recovery Dept., Police station, Hospitals, Town Protection force, Revenue Dept. Office, Block Development Office, Local Disaster Management Groups, NGOs and such places etc.
14. Being not believed the Rumors, the community and social workers must carefully listen to the announcement being delivered by the Govt., NGOs, local disaster management Groups and Medias etc and work according to the instructions being given by them. Then it would be helpful to solve the problems.  
15. Also these Girl students were asked to form College Level Disaster Management Project and to form Disaster Management Groups within the college itself and to serve.
16. It was also experience in detail about the participation of National Service Scheme Students and the importance of their participation.
17. It was described in detail about the avoidance of contagious diseases spreading and the related activities.

FIRST AID TRAINING:

1. It was demonstrated practically with the explanation how shout the First Aid Service to be provided and in what manner the First Aid should provided and in what manner they should be taken to the hospital or nearby clinic.  
2. How shall we provide Artificial respiration to the persons who are in unconscious condition? It was demonstrated practically with the necessary explanation.
3. How should be control the hemorrhage to the person who met the major injury and in what manner the bandage shall be made to him with the practical demos.
4. How shall we take bandage to the bone fractured person according to the defect of the injury? The participated students keenly looked at the performance conducted.
5. If somebody is immersed in water and feels suffocated when he / she breathes, in what manner the First Aid shall be provided.
6. With the practical demonstration it was explanation in what manner the First Aid should be provided for those who were bitten by snake or poisonous insect.
7. Students were emphasized to make arrangements for the First Aid according to the level of the defects, and the place of incident.
8.  Also it was emphasized to make arrangements for the Ambulance. Before beginning the First Aid Help. Information shall be given properly and quickly to the Ambulance centre for the early arrival of the Ambulance without any delay
9. In addition to this General Rules and principals of the First Aid were announced along with the video show and necessary explanation.

MOCK DRILL TRAINING PROGRAMME:

1. A Rehearsal Programme was convened in what manner we could recover the victims being entangled in the flood. It was demonstrated practically.
2. We must quench the fire on the body of the fire accident victims by covering his / her body with woolen sheet, blanket, gunny bag and articles such as not inflammable easily. Such recovery process was explained through practical demonstration in this Mock Drill Training Programme.
3. It was also practically demonstrated in what manner we should take action for the recovery of victims who are entangled in the disasters of storm, cyclone etc in this Training Programme.
4. If the symptoms are found for any tremors in our local areas what type of precaution activities shall be taken? Such Mock Drill Training was also provided to the Trainees along with the practical demonstration.
5. If any accident happened, how should we recover the victim of the accident and take him / her to the hospital and how we should carry him to the ambulance in a safe manner.
6. How shall the crackers be burn during the festival times without causing any hurt or damage to nearby places and persons? Such rehearsal was also conducted during this Mock Drill Training Programme.
7. Due to the heavy pressure in a huge crowd same may die in some occasions. How shall we avoid this problem? Such Mock Drill was also performed and taught with the practical demonstration.