The Revolutions: Successful Flood Relief Camp

Hi All,

Thank You all for your responses for the flood relief activity we planned. Initially we planned to conduct the activity on 17^th of October. Since many of you could transfer money after 17^th, we postponed it to 26^th of October based on the availability of the village heads where we decided to help.

As expected the response was overwhelming from many of you. We selected a village called K.Singavaram which is near Kothakota (35Kms from Kurnool). We had a lead from one of our friends in this village who helped us in identifying the correct families and also in helping us to distribute to each one of them correctly.

We discussed on various options but zeroed in on Woolen Blankets and Towels. There were 400 families in the village that required immediate help and we were requested to help all of them. Govt. gave them rice and other house holds items so we decided to distribute woolen blankets & Towels (also because it falls into our budget and more importantly because it was winter) to the 400 Families.

We bought 400 Woolen Blankets & 800 Towels in Kavali and divided them into 400 packets and transported them to K.Singavaram. Mr. Chinna Satyanarayana , helped us in collecting the ration cards of the families well before the distribution started helped us in issuing each pack based on the ration cards he had with him. This way every family got their pack.

Since this was a major event considering the budget, we combined with 2 similar organizations named Baasata (Read here)& Sphurthy who are doing an excellent job among themselves. They played an important role in collecting the money required to complete this Important event.Would like to take his opportunity to specially thank Revendranath from Basata & Praveen GR from Sphurthy.

The most challenging thing during the flood relief activity for any group is during distribution (Many organizations could not distribute to the right people because other village people started looting the vehicles midway). So would like to thank Venkat Babu, Mr. Ratna Prasad & Chinna Satyanarayana (Head of the Village) in helping us take the parcels safely from Kurnool.

A special thank you note to all the people who came forward with old clothes(many of them still new). we were told that many of the villages were not accepting old clothes so we did not take them with us. We have around 60-70 pairs of old clothes right now. We are still collecting them and waiting for a genuine opportunity to distribute them.Kindly let us know in case you find people who are in need of old clothes.

Special Thanks to Revendranath from Basata for organizing the entire event which took a lot of effort.

Donations:

Baasata Society Rs.24,776/-

Our Revolutions + Sphurthy Foundation Rs 25,200/-

Grand Total : Rs.49,976/-

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Expenses :
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400 Woollen Blankets + 400 Towels : Rs.42,352/- (Includes Rs.280/- packing charges)
Transportation : Rs.04,100/- (Includes Rs.100/- for driver(Mahesh))
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Grand Total : Rs.46,425/-
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Remaining Amount with us : Rs. 03,624/-

Photos & Paper Clippings:

Few Photos below, will be adding the remaining photos and paper clipping soon