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From: Prasanthi Uppalapati <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:25 AM
Subject: Re: <Important>Flood Relief: Time for Collective Action from BosF
To: [email protected]
Hello Giri garu,
Good questions.
If we can go through the report from Mehboob Nagar forwarded by Umesh, it
can give us a basic idea of the common requirements in all the flood
affected villages.
To make the most of the meeting tomorrow, I would like to discuss the
following before we venture seriously into the questions that you raised.
1. What is it each one of us as an individual or a group willing to do?
2. Are we interested to take up a village as a whole, even a small hamlet?
3. If yes, what should be the parameters to select a village?
4. With our status quo, either in the head count or expertise or willingness
to spend time or any other parameter, what is it that we can immediately do?
My personal choice is to first identify a village may be by these factors:
1. Accessibility from Hyderabad/Bangalore/Chennai etc.,
2. Level of devastation
3. Familiarity with the village
---- Friends with bureaucrats or any other official
----Any friends from the village
-----Good rapport with a local NGO
4. Find out the major problem of the village where immediate relief or
respite is required.
5. Start working on that problem or else find out the correct source to work
on the problem and keep following with them
6. Identify 2 to 3 key areas to work.
a. Help renovate the school building
b. Encouraging teachers, parents and students to get back to normalcy
c. Help organizing medical camps and identify problems, if any
d. Arogya water filter scheme
e. Sanitation
f. Temporary shelters or permanent houses/settlements/colonies
g. Livelihoods
Order need not be in the same manner. I am jotting down my thoughts. Based
on the no. of groups willing to take active role, no. of volunteers who can
actually spare full time or part time etc., we can form a core committee and
define roles and responsibilities for each task. We also should follow a
mechanism for free flow of info. and availability of updates to the entire
group.
We need to work on this rigorously and come to a conclusion asap so that we
can plunge into action.
Personally I am willing to spare 15 days full time provided I get the leave.
I am only waiting for the proper time because once I consume these leaves, I
will never get another option/spell in this year. Once we chalk out a plan,
I can decide and apply for leave.
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Giri Kolanupaka <[email protected]>wrote:
> Sorry birds,
>
> This was meant to be forwarded to a person, who wanted to join me
> tomorrow's meeting. Anyway, this also confirms my presence, along with
> Venkat and his friend (most likely) representing Asha Hyderabad and Kiran
> also I guess will be there.
>
> I would like to seek following information in tomorrow's discussion:
>
> 1. How can me motivate villagers to start their own reformation and
> restructuring their own villages.
> 2. Same with children and staff for schools (if any)
> 3. What are the villages which still need relief and what kind of?
> 4. How is the medical help, sanitation, and hygiene maintained in the
> villages. How can we make these available with immediate in action
> 5. How is the govt relief being utilized? Has anything come at all? If so,
> who and how is it going to be given to the villagers.
> 6. Is there any political mis-utlization of relief provided NGOs for
> political greed and factor? If so what can we do? I did hear that this is
> happening.
> 7. We plan to make a visit (day after tomorrow, Sunday) along with some
> material ( we will decide the material after the meeting and after talking
> to villagers or person coordinating there if any ).
>
> Thanks
>
> Giri
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Giri Kolanupaka <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi Venkat,
>>
>> Here is the information about tomorows meeting. I will call you before I
>> leave tomorrow.
>> Thanks and see you tomorrow.
>>
>> Giri
>> 9949474871
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Prasanthi Uppalapati <[email protected]>
>> Date: Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:49 PM
>> Subject: Re: <Important>Flood Relief: Time for Collective Action from BosF
>> To: [email protected]
>> Cc: ToMake Adifference <[email protected]>
>>
>>
>> Friends,
>>
>> This is the venue. This is very easy to locate on the Saradhi Studios Main
>> Road.
>>
>> Ramesh :9885077144
>> Ontrack Educational Consultancy,
>> H.No 8 - 3 - 3 19/8/4
>> Sree Nilayam,
>> Plot # S-5, Near Saradhi Studios Main Road
>> Hyderabad - 500073
>> Andhrapradesh
>> India Tel: (040) 66441008/9
>>
>> Date: 17th October: Diwali
>> Timings:10:30 am to 1 pm
>>
>>
>> Agenda:
>>
>> 0. To discuss the experiences of each group - very briefly
>>
>> 1. To think of ways on how best we can collaborate
>>
>> 2. To set pointers/parameters to select a village
>>
>> 3. List out all the things that can be done in a village
>>
>> 4. List of volunteers from each group - time, effort, money -- which way
>> they can participate in this effort
>>
>> This meet is to discuss our action plan. The activities can be the
>> following once we select any village:
>>
>> a. Cleaning
>>
>> b. Motivating the families
>>
>> c. Engaging children - it can be in the little work that they do or
>> teaching, getting them back to studies.
>>
>> Long term:
>>
>> a. Housing
>>
>> b. Livelihoods
>>
>> For the long term action plan, we need to do a comprehensive survey in the
>> village and we need to request experts to visit and suggest us the measures
>> and all.
>>
>> Requesting you all to discuss in your respective groups and come to the
>> meeting with the list of volunteers who can spare time and/or effort and/or
>> money.
>>
>> Required Info. from each group:
>>
>> 1. Names of villages you worked and interested to propose for the
>> collective action
>>
>> 2. List of volunteers and their area of contribution and tentative
>> schedule
>>
>> 3. Thoughts and suggestions for the actions that we can take up
>>
>> Conclusion should be:
>>
>> 1. Forming a core committee to look after this work.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Thank you.
>>
>> with regards,
>> PRASANTHI.
>> http://groups.google.com/group/birdsofsamefeathers
>> ----
>> When you want something, the whole universe conspires in helping you to
>> achieve it.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Help a child go to school by donating at least one hour's worth of your
>> salary
>>
>
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Thank you.
with regards,
PRASANTHI.
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