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Orissa Relief | West Bengal Relief
The Association for India's Development (AID) has approved two emergency grants totaling $20,000 to support relief efforts in the states of Orissa and West Bengal in India which have seen massive flooding the last 2 weeks due to heavy and incessant rains, with a death toll of nearly 100 and an affected population of over 10 lakh people in the region. AID is calling on all concerned to generously support its relief efforts in India by making specifically directed contributions to its relief fund.
The worst affected areas are the districts of Balasore, Mayurbhanj (Orissa), East and West Midnapore (West Bengal). Besides destroying homes, schools, Panchayat offices, electric and water supply, the floods have also wiped out livestock and crops in these areas, leaving the people abandoned. Lack of food, and potable water have also triggered off a wide range of epidemics and infectious diseases.
AID, working with AID-Orissa, Unnayan and Kajla Jan Kalyan Samiti, has reached out to several villages in the flood-affected areas, providing them with food, drinking water and relief materials. Medical camps have been set up to treat the affected. However they are still in dire need of funds for boats, food, water and relief materials. Read more on Orissa or West Bengal .
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