RELIEF AND REHABILITATION OF CYCLONE GAJA AT INDIA

A t Thiruthuraipoondi, Thiruvarur district in Tamilnadu state, India very enormous cyclone was occurred. In order to recover the condition of victims and to develop their livelihood condition organizations named GlobalGiving and Chevalier Roche Society jointly convene a cyclone Disaster Relief project thro cultural programme.

cyclone Disaster is an incident which causes the loss of many human lives, immeasurable damages at many places in an unexpected manner and bad results to a high extent. In that manner during the cyclone disaster at Tamilnadu many trees and shrubs were dashed by the cyclone and they fall down in numerous number. In addition to that mud and soil were deposited like leaps at many roads and streets. In addition to this a large number of houses and shops were affected heavily and damages were found at large extent. To help them and to protect the damaged properties especially immediate steps were taken to relieve the community who are entangle in mud and heavy uprooted trees area. In order to protect the disaster affected victims 9 types of disaster management committees were formed and training programmes were offered to the local community. Those groups are

1. Fore warning groups
2. Accommodation management group
3. Redemption group to move the affected people to the protected areas and dislocating the community from the affected areas
4.  First Aid Group
5. Water, cleanliness, Health management Removing the corpses of the dead animals group
6. Rehabilitation and co-ordination group
7. Loss Evaluation Group  
8. Counseling group
9. Scout Group.

During this campaign members of the state level co-ordination group, District level counseling group and village supervision group and other committee members also participate in this campaign. On behalf of village supervision community village panchayat president spoke as follows.

1. Through disaster and risk management group. Awareness and training programme was offered to the women self help group memebres.

2. In order to avoid the disasters being occurred at the small scale industries disaster and risk management training programme was offered to the selected factor workers. Ven diagram was also drawn and necessary explanation was offered to the workers in these industries

3. Art and cultural programmes were convened through the appointed NGO staff at various places of the district and created the awareness among the people about disaster and risk management many disaster and risk management awareness programmes were convened at Municipality, Town panchayat, panchayat unions and also in village and created the awareness

1. Various types of planning meetings were convened on disaster and risk management in ward / village level panchayat union, District and Township at various level and they were organized as we already planned and they were co- ordinate

2. Including the national cadet corps, national service scheme, National youth organizations, Scout members and guides, Representatives of civil and social organizations etc. Volunteer teams were formed and organized well.

3. Developing the serving talent of the district management groups in all levels. Individual training programmes were arranged and convened for women on domestic management Water Sanitation, Recovery services ,Evacuation etc.

In this manner at the cyclone affected areas of the Tamilnadu state to rehabilitate the damages and destruction various woman groups having 12 members were formed ,different types of Training programmer are offered and Awareness is created within them . In addition to this to alter and develop the left standard of the people at the affected areas of the Tamilnadu state various types of Training programmer are offered to them.

To develop the educational knowledge of their children different types of situations were discussed. When Mrs.Suyambukani , trainer Chevalier Roche Society spoke she said, ‘’ Our organizations Chevalier Roche Society and GlobalGiving organizations jointly offer various helps and awareness training programmes and other entrepreneurship training programmes to the victims in the disaster affected area named ‘’ Thiruthuraipoondi Tiruvarur district. Hence many people are benefited and got awareness by this project thro cultural programme Because of this life standard of the many disaster affected victims has been uplifted. Finally the trainer, cultural group Chevalier Roche Society the vote of thanks to the participates of the awareness cultural camp and the campaign was successfully accomplished.