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Disaster Relief
United Way of Mumbai is quick to respond to disasters both man made and natural across India.
In an event of a natural disaster United Way of Mumbai's top agenda is as follows:
- Create a disaster relief fund
- Provide emergency relief in terms of food, shelter and clothes to the victims
- Rehabilitation, reconstruction and resettlement
- Diversification of livelihood support base
- Strengthening community level coping mechanisms to deal with future disasters
- Disaster preparedness workshops
Role of United Way of Mumbai:
- Networking with credible NGOs across India.
- Thorough due diligence of potential partner NGOs.
- Disbursement of funds
- Tracking and monitoring of the project with special focus on fund utilization
- Regular visits conducted to the affected site
- Regular updates sent to the corporate
- 80 G certificates sent to the corporate (in case of corporate giving)
- 80 G certificates sent to employees (in case of employee giving)
United Way of Mumbai has hugely supported the relief measures during major disasters like:
Tsunami 04 | Mumbai Flood Relief 05 | Bihar Flood Relief 08 | Mumbai Disaster Response Fund 08
TSUNAMI 04- Restored the livelihoods of 327 families
- Replaced 89 boats, nets, motors across 4 communities impacting 1308 people
- Log books to track usage of boats, catch and income revived
- Opening bank accounts and inculcating saving habits
- Monthly repayment for the boats to instill pride and value for boats allocated.
- Monies raised through repayment to be used for community welfare
- English Medium School from Nursery - Vth Std at Chinnakudi Village, Nagapattinam District
- 100 permanent shelters
- Provided education school uniforms, bags, notebooks, compass boxes to school going children affected by floods.
- Reached out to 8 affected schools and 9 slum communities in Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai
- Sangli & Kolhapur District suffered significantly in the floods United Way Mumbai rebuilt 50 houses, provided stoves to 244 families, helped in building toilets and conducted awareness campaigns on health and hygiene
Punarwaas - a project of Anubhooti
- Reconstructing the lives of 5,000 flood affected people
- Providing kitchens, balwadi, vocational training and health facilities
- Providing toilets to maintain levels of hygiene
- Providing immediate relief to 40,000 flood affected people
- Running community kitchens to provide 3 meals per day
- Providing shelter to cattle of the families affected
Interventions for Rehabilitation of Victims
- Need assessment study
- Follow up visits
- Interventions for Disaster Preparedness
- Strengthening of Emergency Shelters
- Disaster Response Trainings
