GlobalMedic's response to flooding in Orissa has been ongoing and the team has provided over 514,000 litres of clean drinking water to communities over the past month and a half.
December 14, 2011
GlobalMedic’s Rapid Response Team has constructed a mobile latrine in Haraspara village. This latrine has been built in order to raise the community’s capacity by helping them to adopt sanitation and hygiene practices. GlobalMedic has provided over 250,000L of clean drinking water in response to the 2011 floods in this region. In combination with our clean drinking water program, this latrine will greatly reduce the risk of contracting waterborne diseases.
December 10, 2011
GlobalMedic Rapid Response team has installed two new water tanks in the village of Malishai, Orrissa, providing an additional 300 beneficiaries with clean water daily. This village was badly affected by the 2011 flooding, which broke their only hand pump, forcing the community to drink water from the local pond. This is the same pond water that villagers must also use for bathing and washing dirty dishes and clothes.
December 4, 2011
Our team in Orissa continues to provide clean drinking water to people recovering from the huge flooding that occurred this year. Today our water tanker provided 2000L of potable water to the community of Malisahi, an isolated hamlet without access to a clean drinking water source. In total, the RRT has provided more than 130,000L of water to over 5000 beneficiaries.
December 1, 2011
Today, GlobalMedic’s RRT installed a new grey water hand-pump in the Kortana Bajar School, which will provide 150 children with clean drinking water every day for the next two months. The project has distributed over 100,000L of clean drinking water to over 4500 beneficiaries who have been affected by the 2011 flooding.
Check out the communities who now have access to clean water on our water tankering route in Orissa Province below. Zoom in close:
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November 27, 2011
Today GlobalMedic’s RRT expanded its Oriyan flood response by providing water to the Village of Dupur. As a result the team will provide over 800 additional beneficiaries with 2000L of clean drinking water every day for the next six weeks.
November 25, 2011
GlobalMedic has solidified its water tankering routes in Orrissa, responding to the 2011 flooding. The program has provided 34,000L to communities without access to clean drinking water over the last five days.
November 21, 2011
Today, GlobalMedic’s Rapid Response Team began producing clean drinking water using the P4000 Aquaplus water purification in Haraspara, Orissa. The program will provide potable water for over 4500 beneficiaries in Khanda Hata, Nabada and Haraspara as well as the local elementary school. Water tankering distributed 1000L of water to the elementary school for children who were previously reliant on an unsafe drinking source.
November 19, 2011
The GlobalMedic team has set up operations in Konnas Block in Orissa State. The team has completed all preparations for a two month water project to provide potable drinking water to over 4500 beneficiaries daily.
Tomorrow the team is installing a water purification unit in Haraspara which will operate in coordination with a water tankering program. The tankering will provide water to those individuals without access to our central distribution point.
November 17, 2011
GlobalMedic's Rapid Response Team has identified the communities of Mulabasant, Tigiria and Nabad for our clean drinking water distribution program, providing for 4500 beneficiaries. The team has ensured communities are actively engaged and empowered throughout the implementation of this program. Clean water distribution will commence shortly.
November 15, 2011
A new Rapid Response Team is operational in Orissa, India responding to the monsoon flooding in the region. The team is conducting reconnaissance missions throughout the district with SOLAR, our local partners on the ground, to provide clean water to thousands of individuals currently without access.
November 12, 2011
A two person Rapid Response deployed today to Orissa State. The team will be in the country for one month to provide clean water to communities that had been affected by flooding.
Seasonal monsoon rains in September triggered flooding that affected over four million people in Eastern India. The disaster displaced between 200,000 and 300,000 people, leaving them in urgent need of humanitarian relief. According to Alertnet.org, the floods claimed over 250 lives in 4,000 villages and flooded 14 of the 30 districts in the state of Orissa.
Thousands of people are homeless and require shelter, food for themselves and for their livestock. Around 80,720 hectors of cultivated land haves been totally submerged. Damage includes large scale crop loss, destruction of houses, property, roads and embankments. Safe and adequate drinking water is scarce as primary sources of drinking water like ponds, wells and hand pumps have been contaminated by floodwater. In combination with contaminated water sources, insufficient sanitation facilities, dead animals and mosquitoes have resulted in an increased threat of waterborne diseases
