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| Photo: Devastating monsoon floods have swept across South Asia in the past few weeks, killing at least 600 people and destroying the homes of hundreds of thousands more. REUTERS/RAFIQUR RAHMAN |
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Updated August 21, 2007
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South Asia Floods
Severe flooding following days of rain in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan has affected over 30 million people. People have lost everything – their homes, livestock, possessions and food. Infrastructure has been severely damaged. There have been disease outbreaks as people suffer from food shortages and survive amid stagnant waters. Large areas of land remain under water.
In Pakistan the current floods are compounding the damage resulting from severe storms in June that left over 350,000 people homeless.
InterAction member organizations are responding to this crisis through a variety of ways, including food and medicine distribution, providing much needed clean water and sanitation services, and supplying shelter materials.
While InterAction does not accept donations, the InterAction members listed here are accepting contributions for assistance they or their affiliates are providing to those affected by the floods in South Asia.
InterAction has also developed guidelines on the most appropriate ways to help those affected by overseas disasters.
InterAction is a coalition of more than 160 US-based private relief, international development and refugee assistance organizations. InterAction members have agreed to abide by a set of standards to ensure accountability to donors, professional competence and quality of service.
Organizations Responding to the South Asia Floods:
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Action Against Hunger
247 West 37th Street, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10018,
877-777-1420
(August 13)
Action Against Hunger has initiated an emergency program to address
water, sanitation, and hygiene that will assist 20,000 flood-affected
persons in the districts of Shadadkot and Dadu. The program's integrated
approach includes the following activities: Water trucking in the IDP
camps; Hand-augered wells with hand-pumps to be established in
flood-affected villages that lack road access; Water
treatment/purification at the household level (to be implemented in
places where the water turbidity allows the distribution of water
purification tablets); Construction of Emergency toilets (mainly in IDPs
camps) for general sanitary conditions, and to address privacy issues
for women; Non-Food Items distribution to be conducted (including
containers for water transport/storage as well as hygiene items) and
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ADRA International
12501 Old Columbia Pike
Silver Spring, MD 20904,
800-424-ADRA (2372)
(August 10)
ADRA is responding to the flooding in Bangladesh, China, India, and Nepal. It expects to expand its response in the coming days.
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AmeriCares
88 Hamilton Avenue, Stamford CT 06902, 1-800-486-4357
(August 10)
AmeriCares is a non-profit disaster relief and humanitarian aid organization that provides immediate response to emergency medical needs, as well as supports long-term humanitarian assistance programs around the world. AmeriCares is providing relief in India & Bangladesh and has a dedicated fund accepting donations.
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American Red Cross
P.O. Box 37243,
Washington, D.C. 20013,
1 (800) RED-CROSS
(August 10)
The American Red Cross is accepting financial contributions to help people affected by flooding in Pakistan and Bangladesh as part of the relief operations of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. The American Red Cross deployed one international disaster response delegate and two local delegates to southern Pakistan in support of the local Red Crescent and provided more than $200,000 to support relief efforts in Pakistan and Bangladesh.
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Baptist World Aid
Designate "Asia Floods"
405 N. Washington Street,
Falls Church, VA 22046,
703-790-8980
(August 10)
Baptist World Aid is working with and through our member bodies in India and Bangladesh to bring immediate relief to flood victims. In Bangladesh, Baptist Aid already has 6 teams at work providing victims with dried food. In India funds have gone to provide immediate assistance in the Bengal region.
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CARE
Emergency Relief Fund
151 Ellis Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30303, 800-521-CARE
For the 35 million people in Pakistan, Nepal, India, and Bangladesh impacted by the South Asian floods, CARE is working in partnership with local organizations to provide high energy nutritional food, installing sanitation facilities, providing clean drinking water and basic shelter materials. CARE has mounted an immediate response and is committed to helping with longer-term recovery. View up-to-date information |
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Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
South Asia Flood Response
P.O. Box 17090,
Baltimore, MD 21203-7090,
800-736-3467
(August 10)
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) has committed $5 million for flood relief efforts in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Nepal. In Pakistan, CRS has prioritized clean water and shelter in Sindh and Balochistan, and has reached 7,500 families with relief kits, hygiene training, and potable water, and thousands more families with shelter materials. In India, CRS has supported 50,000 families across five states with emergency medical care, food, water filters for safe cooking and drinking, and plastic sheeting to cover damaged homes. CRS also purchased 172 metric tons of high-protein food for 260,000 women in children in Bihar. In Bangladesh, CRS’ partner has distributed food to 10,000 families and is focusing on the critical need of clean water. In Nepal, CRS has supported distributions of household and sanitary emergency kits to several thousand families in four districts, mostly in the low-lying (Terai) belt.
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Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC)
Asia Floods 2007
2850 Kalamazoo Avenue, S.E.
Grand Rapids, MI 49560-0600,
1-800-552-7972
(August 20)
CRWRC will provide for the immediate survival needs in India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan where survivors are without food, shelter, and clean water. CRWRC will provide four months of emergency food aid to 2,000 survivors in the Turbat coastal area of Pakistan through the Interfaith League Against Poverty. In India and Bangladesh, CRWRC has released initial emergency funding while planning a long-term response in collaboration with the Mennonite Central Committee that is expected to reach $.5 million. The Bangladeshi effort will provide emergency food aid to 2,000 survivors as well as food and shelter to 3,000 families in Bihar, India.
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Church World Service
India 2007 Floods, Account #6990
P.O. Box 968
Elkhart, IN 46515,
1-800-297-1516, ext. 222
(August 10)
Church World Service is responding by supporting efforts of long-time CWS partner in India, Church`s Auxiliary for Social Action (CASA). CASA is responding by providing initial relief assistance to 17,500 families - 5,000 families in Assam, 2,500 in West Bengal, 5,000 in Bihar, 2,500 in Orissa and 2,500 in Uttar Pradesh. Work includes a feeding program, distribution of food and relief sets that includes clothing, blankets and other articles of daily use. CWS is also providing assistance to 5,000 affected families for repair and construction of huts.
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Concern Worldwide U.S.
104 East 40th St.
Suite 903,
New York, NY 10016,
800-59-CONCERN
(August 10)
Concern Worldwide is rapidly responding to the massive population displacement in Bangladesh and India where villages have been devastated by weeks of heavy rain. In Bangladesh, Concern’s emergency response team provided immediate disaster relief for 11,000 families. Concern is currently scaling up its response by providing safe drinking water and dry food rations for 11,000 affected people in Sirajganj, Faridpur and Manikgang. In India, Concern’s team is assessing the impact of the floods in four districts and plans to provide life-saving services to 10,000 families: emergency relief items including water purification tablets, buckets and soap as well as food rations and plastic sheeting for temporary shelter.
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Direct Relief International
27 South La Patera Lane,
Santa Barbara, CA 93117,
805-964-4767
(August 10)
In response to the recent monsoons and subsequent flooding in South Asia, medical aid group Direct Relief International is collaborating with partners in the affected countries to meet pressing healthcare needs compounded by contaminated and stagnant floodwaters. In Pakistan, Direct Relief is supplying partner American Refugee Committee (ARC) with an Emergency Health Kit, containing medicines, IV solutions, and other supplies and equipment. Direct Relief previously worked with ARC following the Pakistan earthquake in October 2005. In India, Direct Relief is supporting the Public Health Department of Greater Mumbai, a partner during 2005 flooding, with supplies including antibiotics, oral rehydration salts, and analgesics. Direct Relief also is reaching out to partners in the affected parts of Nepal and Bangladesh, and is currently assessing their materials needs. |
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Episcopal Relief and Development
PO Box 7058,
Merrifield, VA 22116-7058,
1-800-334-7626, ext. 5129
(August 10)
Episcopal Relief and Development will be assisting to provide clothing, food, blankets, purification tablets and bleaching powder to affected families. Tarpaulin sheets for temporary shelter, and assist in the repair and construction of huts. |
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Food for the Hungry
1224 East Washington Street
Phoenix, AZ 85034,
1-800-248-6437
(August 10)
Food for the Hungry relief workers have concentrated their efforts in Bangladesh and are distributing 10-day food supplies, including rice, potatoes, lentils, salt and cooking oil. In addition, FH relief workers are distributing oral saline, water purification tablets, soap and medicine to combat water-borne illnesses. Also, tubewells and sanitary latrines are being constructed. |
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Friends of the World Food Program
1819 L Street, NW, Suite 900,
Washington, DC 20036,
(202) 530-1694
(August 21)
The World Food Program (WFP) has launched an emergency operation to feed
60,000 of the worst affected people in Nepal for three months. This is
out of a total of 330,000 people affected in 33 out of Nepal's 75
districts. WFP estimates it will need US$1.5 million in additional
funding to assist those affected by the Nepali floods. In Bangladesh,
WFP has already distributed 126 tons of emergency biscuits. Elsewhere in
the region, WFP has made small-scale interventions, as part of the
immediate response, with the vast bulk of the humanitarian assistance
being handled by the governments themselves. |
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Habitat for Humanity International
121 Habitat Street,
Americus, GA, 31709-3498,
1-800-HABITAT
(August 10)
Habitat for Humanity has launched an initial assessment of shelters damaged and destroyed in the wake of flooding in Bangladesh, where we have an active home-building and community transformation program. Details of Habitat for Humanity's response will be available upon completion of the assessment.
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International Medical Corps
1919 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 400, Santa Monica, CA 90404, 800-481-4462
(August 10)
IMC is monitoring the SE Asia floods in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal and positioning supplies and resources should additional external assistance be needed. If needed, IMC is prepared for emergency health interventions and will assess wat/san and rehabilitation needs. IMC is also planning activities toward longer term recovery efforts in Pakistan for those impacted by flooding.
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International Relief & Development
1621 North Kent Street,
Suite 400,
Arlington, VA 22209,
877-844-5644
(August 10)
The IRD Nepal office conducted an assessment of the flood-affected Banke, Bardiya, and Kailali districts of Nepal, identifying food, clean water, and hygiene and medical supplies as key needs. Working with a local NGO as the implementing partner, IRD plans to provide relief assistance by supplying food, utensils, mosquito nets and other health supplies, as well as establishing temporary free mobile health clinics to prevent water-borne disease outbreaks. The clinics will be organized in coordination with the Nepal Red Cross and Nepal Public Health Offices. IRD does accept Gifts in Kind - Mosquito nets and health supplies preferred, and other donations accepted on a case-by-case basis.
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LIFE for Relief and Development
South Asia Floods
17300 W Ten Mile Road,
Southfield, MI 48075,
1-800-827-3543
(August 10)
LIFE for Relief and Development is currently campaigning to raise funds for the natural disaster in South Asia. LIFE's office in Pakistan is distributing Food Pakages, Kitchen supplies, tents, blankets, purified water, and more to the people afflicted because of the flood.
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Lutheran World Relief
Designate donation for "India Floods"
P.O. Box 17061,
Baltimore, MD 21298-9832,
800-597-5972
(August 10)
Through the Action by Churches Together alliance, LWR is helping to assist over 58,000 of the most vulnerable people in India. Activities include providing emergency food rations, clothing, relief kits, and temporary shelter and equipping community groups to repair of over 700 houses and 15 schools.
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MAP International
Pakistan Emergency/India Flooding Emergency Relief
P.O. Box 7020
Albert Lea, MN 56007-9931
800.225.8550
(August 10)
In cooperation with long-time partner in India, Emmanuel Hospital Association, MAP International is providing essential medicines and other emergency supplies to stave off disease and provide relief to thousands of people suffering from illnesses and injuries in flood-ravaged areas. MAP will also contribute funds to support EHA’s work in the distribution of food and the provision of clean water and sanitary services. In Pakistan, MAP is also providing emergency health and hygiene kits to people in affected areas in conjunction with other Global Relief Alliance members. |
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Medical Teams International
South Asia Flood Fund
PO Box 10
Portland, OR 97207
800-959-4325
(August 10)
Medical Teams International is sending funds to purchase healthcare supplies, medicines and hygiene products for distribution by local relief groups in India and Bangladesh. Volunteer doctors and nurses are on standby with Medical Teams International to depart for Bangladesh as soon as our partners' assessments are complete--an action that is expected to be finished in the next 24 to 48 hours. |
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Mercy Corps
South Asia Flooding
PO Box 2669, Portland, OR 97208-2669, 800-852-2100
(August 10)
Mercy Corps is responding to epic flooding in South Asia. In Pakistan, where the agency has operated since the mid-1980s, workers continue to reach stranded residents with supplies, distributing emergency kits to more than 11,000 households. A cash-for-work program pays local residents to help restore drinking water for 10,000 people. The agency has also opened three health camps located at small rural health facilities in the worst-hit areas. Additionally, Mercy Corps staff located in flood-affected areas in India and Nepal continue to monitor those situations closely.
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Mercy-USA for Aid and Development
Bangladesh Flood Relief
44450 Pinetree Drive, Suite 201, Plymouth, Michigan 48197-3869, 800-55-MERCY (800-556-3729)
(August 10)
Through our local partners, Mercy-USA for Aid and Development will be providing rice, lentils, oil and salt to displaced families in Bangladesh.
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Operation USA
South Asia Floods
3617 Hayden Ave. Suite A
Culver City, CA 90232
1-800-678-7255
(August 10)
Operation USA has a team currently in India assessing medical and public health needs in the impact area. Given the difficulty around the importation of relief into India, government approvals are essential in advance before anything is sent.
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Oxfam America
Global Emergencies Fund
226 Causeway Street, 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02114, 800-77-OXFAM
(August 10)
Oxfam will be responding to up to half a million people in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal who have been affected by flooding in the current monsoon. Oxfam has been working in West Bengal and Orissa since July, when rains and floods affected about 5.5 million people. The agency plans to reach around 50,000 families in four of India’s eastern states: Assam, West Bengal, Orissa, and Bihar. Oxfam is also working with 12,000 families in Bangladesh and 2,000 in Nepal. The response will focus primarily on shelter, public health, food, and safe drinking water.
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Plan USA
155 Plan Way
Warwick, RI 02886,
1-800-556-7918
(August 14)
Plan programs in South Asia are focused now on immediate relief for
those affected by floods. We are assisting with temporary shelters,
food, medicines for snake bite, and security.
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Relief International
South Asia Flood Appeal
1575 Westwood Blvd., Suite 200, Los Angeles, CA 90024, 800-573-3332
(August 10)
Relief International (RI) is preparing to respond to the humanitarian and livelihoods crisis created by floods in Pakistan & Bangladesh. Through staff & local partner NGOs, RI is developing a range of humanitarian, livelihoods, and reconstruction interventions in the most vulnerable & affected areas. RI has considerable experience in recovery operations in South Asia, most recently in response to the 2005 Pakistan earthquake.
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Save the Children USA
South Asia Emergency Flood Response
54 Wilton Road, Westport, CT 06880, 800-728-3843
(August 10)
Save the Children has launched a region-wide response to storm-triggered flooding across Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan. The agency plans to reach more than 132,000 families with critical supplies (food, clean water, shelter materials, hygiene items) and provide ongoing support in the areas of health, education, child protection, livelihoods, and water and sanitation.
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United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR)
International Disaster Response, Code #982450
PO Box 9068,
New York, NY 10087,
800-554-8583
(August 10)
UMCOR will provide emergency relief and long-term recovery to 4,300 vulnerable beneficiaries living in flooded villages in Bangladesh. Our work will be in conjunction with partner Muslim Aid. Specifics include emergency supplies, sanitation facilities for the displaced, and rebuilding of destroyed homes. UMCOR is accepting Gifts in Kind of hygiene kits. |
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World Concern
Bangladesh Flooding #7106
19303 Fremont Ave N, Shoreline, WA 98133, 1-800-755-5022
(August 10)
World Concern has redirected its long-term staff in Bangladesh to respond to the flooding. The initial response is addressing the most critical and life-threatening issues, providing clean drinking water and treatment for diarrhea for 60,000 people in our project area near Dhaka, to be followed by grants for small businesses that have been flooded and who are normally supported by our on-going micro-credit program.
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World Vision
South Asia Floods
P.O. Box 9716, Federal Way, WA 98063-9176, 888-511-6548
(August 10)
World Vision aims to reach 10,000 households in India, supplying food, shelter, water, education supplies, kitchen utensils and clothing. As families begin returning to their villages, World Vision will provide them with a 30-day pack of rations, utensils and blankets, as well as building materials to rebuild their homes. In Bangladesh, 690,000 houses and 600,000 acres of land have been affected by the flooding, contributing to a possible agriculture and food crisis. World Vision is targeting 80,000 families for relief, providing them with a seven day supply of food and non-food items.
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