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In the first few hours and days, workers provide cooked meals for the survivors. |
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Immediate: Within six hours of the January 26th quake, World Vision India workers distributed emergency food to 500 families in Ahmedabad. The next day, they fed 300 others in Bhuj, and set up a relief centre in Bhachau, a town that had been completely devastated by the quake. By January 28th they had begun providing daily meals to 10,000 people in Bhachau.
“7-day” Emergency Support phase: January 31st - February 9th. During this phase, 80 World Vision staff and volunteers brought emergency supplies to a total of 19,837 families in 73 villages. The families received enough dry food (mainly rice and dhal/lentils) to last them a week, plus drinking water, blankets and plastic or tarpaulins so they could make a basic shelter.
A family takes home their relief supplies. |
“30-day” Stabilisation phase: February 10th - February 22nd. Distributed 30-day food supplies and “family packs” to help families cope during the first month after the disaster. In total, World Vision gave family packs to 15,417 families in 46 villages. A family pack usually has:
- Three blankets
- One utensil kit (1 bucket, 2 cooking pots, 2 spoons, 5 plates, 5 cups and 5 bowls)
- One soap pack (7 body-soap bars and 5 detergent bars)
- One T-shirt pack (3 children’s T-shirts)
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The “60 to 90-day” Intermediary phase: February 24th - March/April. Provided longer-term supplies to fit families’ needs. These included more food; tents for shelter (since the plastic sheets would not be enough to keep out the monsoon rains); personal hygiene kits for women; and tool kits to help in clearing rubble. By March 22nd 3,768 families in 14 villages had received tool kits, while 6,256 families in 20 villages had received tents. In total over the first four phases, World Vision distributed relief supplies to over 30,000 families.
A World Vision worker gives toothpaste and laundry soap to
Maya Ben's mother and grandmother
“Rehabilitation” phase: June 2001 – November 2003. Helping families and communities rebuild their lives. The main goals are:
- Improve agriculture so families have a secure supply of food
- Repair or dig wells for clean water and repair irrigation systems
- Increase incomes with small business loans and work training
- Re-build community centres and schools
- Encourage communities to work together on their ongoing problems
- Improve health by preventing diseases such as malaria and diarrhoea and training volunteers to help people recover from trauma
Many other agencies have helped the earthquake victims in Gujarat. For example:
- The National Centre for Disaster Management in New Delhi sent a team of 20 experts, plus equipment, to the earthquake zone immediately after the quake. The national government has also helped with rehabilitation, including loans to help businesses re-start.
- The Gujarat state government set up a relief fund to co-ordinate relief efforts by local and international agencies, and employed local people to clear debris after the quake and to rebuild services like water and sewerage systems.
- The Indian army, and teams from the local community and from Russia, Hungary and Germany all helped to search for survivors in the rubble.
- Many local and international NGOs (non-government organisations), including the Red Cross, Unicef, The US-India Society and others helped with supplies, expertise, and other assistance.
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