AID - Urgent appeal from AID

Urgent appeal from AID

URGENT APPEAL FOR MILLIONS AFFECTED BY CYCLONE AILA

Please contribute generously through AID's All India Relief Fund.

As of Friday, 29th May 2009, more than 100 people are reported dead and an estimated 3 million displaced from their homes by Cyclone Aila in southern West Bengal.

In the Sundarban area, thousands of homes have been broken and people have taken shelter in nearby schools and Panchayat offices. There is an acute shortage of food, drinking water and clothes. As the water is receding in some villages gastroentrities is beginning to rear its ugly head.

Association for India's Development (AID) is working with Baikanthapur Tarun Sangha (BTS)and Mukti in the blocks of Kultali, Patharpratima, Gosaba, Kakdwip and Mathurapur II in the district of South 24 Parganas, to provide immediate relief and long term rehabilitation.

The need is immediate and huge. Rupees 10 Lakhs (approx $21000) has already been sent to provide food, water and temporary shelter to the affected.

Regular updates from the ground are being posted on Aila Relief Page of AID's website

AID is a volunteer movement, and a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization (tax ID 04-365260). Donations to AID are tax-deductible in the USA.

For further Information, please contact

Somnath Mukherji      732-423-6662 mukherji.somnath@gmail.com
Tathagata Sengupta   617-800-5082 tsengupta@gmail.com
Srinivas Rao                 919-452-7933 rao.chadaram@gmail.com
Umang Kumar             603-930-3798 umkumar@gmail.com
Samik Basu                   617-939-4814 samik.basu2@gmail.com

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