1.  Flood Relief:

Fiji:  Our centre in Nadi continued relief work among the flood victims in Fiji.  It distributed 1035 textbooks, 851 notebooks, 421 school uniforms, 63 school bags, 930 pens, 1299 pencils, 1340 erasers, 279 rulers and 43 mathematical instrument sets to flood-affected students, value education book packs containing 50 titles each to the libraries of 14 schools, and school fees and bus fares to 398 students.  The centre has also taken up construction of houses for 2 families who lost almost everything in the flood. 

Flood Relief by Nadi (Fiji) centre

India: The following centres conducted post-flood-relief work as stated below.

(a) Bihar: Patna centre distributed 2611 saris, 4087 towels, 10,16,600 halogen tablets, etc to flood victims.

(b) Orissa: Bhubaneswar centre distributed 468 school bags, 806 notebooks, 470 pens, 470 pencils, 460 erasers, 470 scales and 468 value education books to 468 flood-affected students of 3 schools in Cuttack and Puri districts.

2. Winter Relief: Belgharia and Ooty centres distributed 990 and 300 blankets respectively to poor people, and Rajahmundry centre distributed 125 thick chadars to leprosy patients.

Winter Relief by Rajahmundry centre

3. Fire Relief: Assam: Karimganj centre distributed food items (rice, dal, mustard oil, salt and spices), utensils (handas, karais, dekchis, buckets, mugs, hatas, khuntis, plates, bowls and glasses), stoves, blankets and mosquito-nets to 2 poor families whose houses had been gutted by fire at Charbazar area in Karimganj town.

Fire Relief by Karimganj centre

4. Distress Relief: The following centres distributed various items, shown in brackets, to the needy in their respective areas: Belgaum (375 kg rice, 375 kg flour, 75 kg dal and 75 kg edible oil), Belgharia (1545 saris, 1135 dhotis, 487 lungis, 518 shirts and 2622 children’s garments), Chandigarh (plates, cups and glasses – 50 each), Katihar (65 sets of pants and shirts, and 15 cycles), Puri Math (dictionaries, pencils, scales, soap-bars and Dettol bottles – 100 each).

                      Distress Relief by Belgharia (Kolkata) centre

Besides, Rahara centre sunk a deep tube-well in Pathankhali village, South 24 Parganas district.

Tube-well installed by Rahara (Kolkata) centre

5. Economic Rehabilitation: Under self-employment programme, Guwahati centre distributed 4 tatsals (weaving equipments) and 4 sewing machines, and Katihar centre distributed 4 rickshaws and 4 sewing machines to poor and needy people.