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Disaster Relief

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Hunger & Homelessness

Utpal Goswami

We are a non-profit organisation, working in parts of rural Assam in fields of sustainable livelihood, child rights, financial literacy, etc. Our intervention areas in Morigaon and other close-by regions have been thoroughly affected by floods, with our last-mile partners, community members, their families and neighbourhoods facing a severe shortage of essential items. Markets have been rendered inaccessible, and there has been loss of life and property for many of the community members we directly work with, as well as other members of the community. The community members are still at a high risk of losing their lives and property, and susceptible to diseases such as the Japanese Encephalitis if their needs are not met. In Morigaon, which is the second-most affected district in this year’s floods, more than 200 villages and more than 1,00,000 households get affected by every year by the floods. As per DONER ministry records, Morigaon district loses more than 1000 hectares of land every year to flood and erosion.Gagalmari, ShukutiputaHabi and Tikhabori are the three villages under Mayong Block where RGVN’s MoiPragati programme is being carried out. All these villages are flood affected, and they are in dire need of emergency items. 
 A brief survey has been done by us in these villages and the need for the following items was identified: 1.	Baby Food 2.	Biscuits3.	Cattle Feed 4.	Candles 5.	Mosquito Nets6.	Buckets7.	Mosquito Repellent8.	Glucose 9.	Water10.	SoapOur plan of action to help with the disaster: 1)	Collect the above items deposited by donors at a collection point set up in our office building premises; 2)	Use the funding to purchase the above items. An estimated budget has been created, after identifying the proportional need of these items;3)	Use our network of community leaders and the local government under the MoiPragati programme in these villages for identification of beneficiaries and aid in the distribution process; 4) Set up a committee with local stakeholders who shall help us identify the most affected families/individuals/communities and set up a distribution mechanism;4)	Provide a transparency report to donors about the utilisation of funds, and the impact of the relief workWe are also in conversation with local authorities to collaborate with other agencies doing relief work, and also to identify changing needs as they crop up, and respond accordingly. 
 We are seeking to provide basic relief support at this point, by surveying the affected people to identify their immediate needs and provide those items at the earliest and in the most efficient manner with our dedicated field teams. The following aspects have been kept in mind while the relief intervention was planned: 1)	Hunger and thirst alleviation: To provide ready-to-eat foods such as biscuits and glucose and baby food for ages under 5 for hunger mitigation and bottled water until arrangements can be made for meals 2)	Soaps for maintaining hygiene and stop the spread of contagious diseases which generally have an outbreak during floods3)	Candles, as electricity connections have been intermittent, with some places not having any access at all 4)	Mosquito nets, Mosquito repellent to prevent Japanese Encephalitis affecting this area 5)	Buckets to collect usable water for later usage6)	Cattle feed to ensure the cattle are being fed regularly, as they are a huge source of livelihood for the community

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Livelihood

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Women Empowerment

Nameri is one of the most ecologically rich and bio-diverse regions in Assam, with many indigenous communities residing in forest-fringe areas close to the designated Nameri National Park. Since most of these settlements are not officially recognized revenue villages, these areas do not have recognized institutions for governance and administration and are ineligible for receiving the benefits of different schemes the government has in place for village development. Moreover, since these areas are in the deep interiors and are significantly far away from its closest towns, they are lacking in infrastructure such as roads and electricity. Their livelihood options have now become severely limited, since they are mostly forest-dependent. Although in the beginning, they enjoyed some privileges like permission to collect raw materials free of cost (such as wood for fuel, food for themselves, fodder for their cattle and non-timber forest products) from the forest, their dependency on forest areas is gradually increasing as their household size increases, particularly in terms of acquiring new lands for agriculture and fishing. There has been recognized an increased need to tap into other forms of livelihood in order to provide alternative sustainable means of earning a living and providing for the household. 
 In an attempt to create livelihood diversification, RGVN has done a number of initiatives to tap into the traditional skills of the indigenous women residing in these areas. One of the primary initiatives that RGVN is involved in is giving inputs and facilities to women weavers to hone their skills and create products. These inputs include handlooms, design inputs, dyeing skills, material for production and wages for producing their products. RGVN then further provides market linkages in order to sell these products globally. However, the project has an obstruction, which is the lack of electricity in these villages. Most of these women are busy throughout the day engaging in other livelihood options and the most comfortable time for them to weave would be in the evening. The aim of this fundraising is, therefore, to equip one household with two solar lights that can be charged during the day and be put to use in the evenings. RGVN has also been at the forefront of introducing renewable forms of energy in the villages of North-East India, with particular focus on solar lamps. A solar lamp is efficient, environment-friendly and can last up to 4 hours if charged during the day. 
 As of now, there are 37 women weavers who are beneficiaries of this scheme, and have received all the inputs as well as market linkages along with the profits generated through the launch of GrassLooms, a brand devised under RGVN and launched under Brahmaputra Community Development Trust. The next phase of empowering these women will be soon launched, with addendums and changes to the inputs and implementation strategy. With the addition of solar lamps, we hope to drastically increase the output from these weavers, which will translate into more earnings for the women weavers. This will also pave the way for adoption of renewable sources of energy into the development narrative. Acquiring a solar lamp will be beneficial for the whole household, as it can be used for multiple purposes such as aiding in studies, training sessions in the evening, and reducing kitchen hazards. With at least one solar light for each household, this will be the first step in lighting up a village which has never received electricity, and will probably not in the near future. Hence, this fundraising is an attempt to request an individual donor to fund two solar lights for one household. Together, let us Light Up Nameri!

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Established in April 1990, Rashtriya Gramin Vikas Nidhi, popularly known by its acronym RGVN, was established as an autonomous, non-profit organisation / non-government organisation (NGO), and is registered under the Society’s Registration Act of 1860 with its headquarters in Guwahati, Assam. RGVN’s founding sponsor, IFCI Ltd., provided the initial set-up support and with time, IDBI, NABARD and Tata Social Welfare Trust (TSWT) became its sponsors. In 2010, RGVN’s CSP programme was hived off to form RGVN (NE) MF Ltd. which is now the NESFB.RGVN is a national level multi-state development and support organization working in the states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura, Sikkim, Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar. After expanding operations in the North-East, development activities were also extended to the poverty stricken pockets of Chhattisgarh, eastern Uttar Pradesh and coastal Andhra Pradesh.Over time, RGVN has been able to groom and support small community based organisations involved in a variety of livelihood enhancement programmes. RGVN’s core strength comes from its network of NGOs, community based organisations and self-help groups, a number of which have now grown and are capable of handling large development projects. RGVN operates through its regional offices based out of Guwahati, Bhubaneswar, Patna and Raipur.

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Nupur Ramchandani

My heartiest heartiest gratitude to all you amazing and wonderful people out there who supported this fundraiser. I feel really happy to inform you all that with your support the women were able to retain their machines and sustain their business. They continue to manufacture and supply their eco-friendly cutlery across the region. And your help made it all possible.Gratitude and blessings to you!

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