Press Release
Youths’ helping hands on Bajura Landslide
emergency
July
3, 2012: A
devastating landslide triggered by intensive rains washed away 57 houses and
shops and left five people dead and many injured in the remote village of
Pipaldali, located in ward 9 of Bandhu VDC, Bajura at 9:30 pm on May 31, 2012. It also
destroyed the Kolti Water Supply System, Kolti Primary Health Centre, 4-5 km of
Kolti Pipaldali road, 50-60 ropanis of agricultural land and local irrigation
systems. The
victims are all from poor families and many were “Dalits”. Due to the remoteness of the village, it took several days
for news of this incident to reach the media and relief agencies.
Internalizing to act immediate relief for food,
shelter, clothes and health, five youth groups from Kathmandu joint their hands
and started a relief campaign, “Call for Action: Please contribute to help
Bajura Landslide Victims”. Fund
raising, logistic collection and sensitization activities were carried out
during 3 weeks of time starting from June 7 to June 29, 2012. Rupees. one lakh
and thirty thousand contributed from more than 1000 contributors has already
been already sent to the affected areas. Similarly, 10 Bora clothes, 150 Piyush
(water chlorination liquid), 50 Note copies and 12 dozen pencil collected from
various well-wishers were also sent to the affected area.
More than 1000 youths/people directly engaged on this
cause from various dynamics. Students and Staffs from 14 colleges contributed
more than sixty thousands rupees, professionals and staffs from various
organizations contributed around seventy thousands rupees, various personals
contributed one day salary. “paschim paaila” added ten thousand rupees from
Emergency Relief Fund as seed fund. Various well-wishers contributed logistics
and all. Most of all, more than 3000 youths/persons became concerned about the
emergency issue.
All the reliefs (funds and logistics) collected in
Kathmandu were sent to affected families from Kolti and Pipaladadi of Bajura
through a local NGO, Human Resource Centre-Bajura. They supported to transport
all the logistics from Dhangadi to Kolti (affected areas) and also coordinated
to District Disaster Relief Committee and Local disaster relief committee to
support the relief effectively.
Collective efforts
from various teams with dedicated and motivated youth mass were carried out in
the very short period of emergency need. This has justified the youth efforts
are never worthless. Instead,
always becomes the factor for transformation. 5 youth groups were stand up to
raise Rs. 138,000/-, guess if 100 youth groups stand up for such cause???
Cheers!!!
About: Pachim Paaila,
a youth-led campaign/network against diarrhoea epidemic, together with other
concerned organizations, had launched a campaign in collaboration with various
youths and youth groups such as Nepalese Youth for Climate Action (NYCA), Youth
for Disaster Risk Reduction (YDRR), Rotaract Club of Dillibazar and Rotaract
Club of Kathmandu Midtown for supporting the landslide victims.
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Contact:
Phurba Sange Moktan
Campaign Focal Person
Tel: +977-9851141328,
+977-01-4468641, 4493188
Skype: moktanphurba20
Email:
moktanphurba20@gmail.com
“Call for Action:
Please contribute to help Bajura Landslide Victims” Campaign
Paschim Paaila
Secretariat
Secretariat by:
Environment and Public Health Organization (ENPHO
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For more information,
please visit:
Also, For
fundraising details. Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgEXKXBQ7aqhdElSdmRDS2UxbkZwekFaQ3IyRy1Ya1E&pli=1#gid=0
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Bajura (Kolti) Landslide: Youths on Emergencies
1. Fund raising
| S.No. | Name | Amount | |
| 1 | “paschim paaila” (from Emergency Relief Fund) | 10000 | |
| 2 | Bhushan Tuladhar | 10000 | |
| 3 | Ashutosh Tiwari | 10000 | |
| 4 | Suman Kumar Shakya | 1000 | |
| 5 | Rajesh Ahikari | 1000 | |
| 6 | Rabin Bastola | 700 | |
| 7 | Rajesh Manandhar | 5000 | |
| 8 | Madan Malla | 5000 | |
| 9 | Sudha Shrestha | 5000 | |
| 10 | Padam Sundar Joshi | 5000 | |
| 11 | Kalmal Adhikari | 4000 | |
| 12 | Sunita Pradhan | 4000 | |
| 13 | Pawan Joshi | 3000 | |
| 14 | Sunim Sagar Dangol | 100 | |
| 15 | Neha Jyoti Shrestha | 100 | |
| 16 | Solena Shrestha | 100 | |
| 15 | Phurba Sange Moktan | 620 | |
| 16 | Sasmita Poudel | 105 | |
| 17 | Kamala K.C | 500 | |
| 18 | Merina Shakya | 200 | |
| 19 | Student at NAMS | 6725 | |
| 20 | Students and staffs of Karnali College | 6473 | |
| 21 | Bhaktapur Exhibition | 500 | |
| 22 | Fund Through T-Shirt | 5900 | |
| 23 | Purnima and Prajwal Shakya | 1200 | |
| 24 | Student ,Teacher & Admin of MRM College | 6685 | |
| 25 | Students & Teachers Stupa NIHS College | 8363 | |
| 26 | Laxmi Bhandari | 300 | |
| 27 | Students & Teachers form Trichandra College | 2640 | |
| 28 | Anil Singh | 1000 | |
| 29 | Student and Admin of Little Buddha College | 3815 | |
| 30 | Rishika Thapa | 1000 | |
| 34 | Giri Raj Khatri | 500 | |
| 35 | Staffs and members from CEN and NYCA | 6150 | |
| 36 | Students Thames College | 2270 | |
| 37 | Sanjeev Dahal | 1002 | updated 4pm, 19 June,2012 |
| 38 | Students from Nova College | 1130 | |
| 39 | Hari Kumar Karki | 500 | |
| 40 | Students and staffs of NIMS | 6732 | |
| 41 | Staffs of ECO Nepal and YDRR | 1150 | |
| 42 | Students and staffs from Valley Technical college | 2525 | |
| 43 | Mr. Ratna Kumar Giri | 500 | updated 3 pm, 20th June, 2012 |
| 44 | Student Forum for Forestry Research and Environment Conservation | 2050 | |
| 45 | Bijendra Banjade | 200 | updated 12:30 pm, June 21, 2012 |
| 46 | Students from Golden Gate College | 1280 | updated 3 pm, June 21, 2012 |
| 47 | Mochan Bhattarai | 500 | |
| 48 | Chandan Lama | 1000 | updated 4 pm, June 24, 2012 |
| 49 | Aman Shrestha | 100 | updated 1 pm, June 25, 2012 |
| 50 | Lakpha Sherpa (Piggy Banking) | 215 | |
| 51 | Students of KMC College | 350 | Updated 2:48pm, June 25, 2012 |
| 52 | Students of KUSOM Social Club | 957 | Updated: July 2, 2012 |
| Total | 139137 |
Logistics collection:
| Logistics Support list for Bajura Landslide victims | |||
| 1 | Rotarct Club of Dillibazar | 5 Bora clothes | |
| 2 | Rajesh Adhikari | 1 Bag (Bora) clothes | |
| 3 | Help Nepal Network | 4 Bora clothes | |
| 4 | ENPHO | 150 Pcs. Piyush | |
| 5 | Paschim Paaila | 40 Campaign T-shirt for fund raising | |
| 6 | ENPHO | 50 Pcs. Cups for fund raising | |
| 7 | Mahidul Islam | 1 Jhola clothes (4) | |
| 8 | Arun Pd. Bhattarai | Campaign felx print | Note: 1 bora contistutes about 50 clothes |
| 9 | Binod Pd. Parajuli | Speakers for fund raising campaign (will be returned after completion of fundraising campaign) | |
| 10 | ENPHO | Meeting Hall | Last updated: June 18, 2012 |
| 11 | Visit Himalaya Trek | Note copys (50 pcs) and Pencils (12 dozens) | Last updated: June 25, 2012 |
| 12 | ECARD and HRC | Transportation of Logistics | |
| 13 | NRCS-Bajura | Transportation of Logistics | Last updated: June 28, 2012 |
Emergency meeting-IV:
Emergency meeting 4 was held on June 25, 2012 from 3:00 – 5:00 pm at ENPHO Hall, Thapagaun with 12 attendees from different youth groups and colleges in presence of Mr. Suman Kumar Shakya and Mr. Prajwal Shrestha from ENPHO, Manjeet Dhakal from CEN.
Main agendas for this meeting were:
1. Updates the present scenario and needs
2. Youths initiatives so far for relief
3. What next?
Through the discussions following were the conclusions:
1. Discussing on the agenda no. 1, Phurba Sange Moktan updated a present scenarios and needs of the affected families.
Phurba shared the monitoring report which was send by Laxman Joshi, HRC. From the provided report we came to know that;
- Government has provided one lakh rupees for the purchase of medicines for Kolti PHC.
- The scarcity for water is still prevalent. People are using to fetch water from one hour distance.
One liter water is priced for Rs. 2 on the affected areas.
- Food supports are providing from different agencies. However, still food has been as primary need
- Shelter support was provided by NRCS. However, due to strong winds, they all are swept away. Now affected families are used to stay on their relatives.
- Rehabilitation and reconstruction process is going on for Water. Still need to address on various other aspect.
- People are still not feeling assured psychologically.
2. Discussing on the agenda no. 2, Phurba shared so far initiatives from youths from Kathmandu from the youths’ level.
- The clothes and Medicines sent for affected families from youths from Kathmandu has already reached to Kolti.
- Also, The raised fund in Kathmandu from the efforts of youths Rs. 130,000/- has already processed to send via HRC-Bajura.
- Similarly, 50 Pcs. Note books, 12 dozens pencils and 10 pcs. Clothes are collected, which will be sending to the affected areas through some channels.
- So far rapid response activities went very well. Now, the social media campaigning for fund raising is concluded to end.
3. Discussing on the agenda no 3, following points was concluded for ahead:
- Preparing letter of thanks and providing to all the institutional/organizational contributors.
- Updating all the information regarding to the scenarios, interventions, gaps, challenges, stories from the affected areas.
- Advocate and bridging the issue in Kathmandu through appeal letter and press releases to respective stakeholders such as ministries, departments, media, etc. for prompt actions for rehabilitations and reconstruction process.
- Map the volunteers for field response activities on the basis of needs on the future and also explore for the possible funding supports.
- Final sharing program is decided to conduct on WASH FORUM, monthly talk series on June 29, 2012 at 2 pm. On the program, letter of thanks to the contributors, vote of thanks all the campaigners, volunteer mapping for the filed response and final sharing will be made.
Emergency Meeting-III
Emergency meeting-3 was held on 20th June,2012, Wednesday, at 3 pm at ENPHO Hall.
Altogether 22 youths from 6 youth groups participated on the meeting. Phurba Sange Moktan facilitated the meeting and was also supported by Merina.
Following are some important updates from the meeting:
1. Past Updates:
• Every fund raising activities done 3 days before the meeting were shared and updated to all the participates. Till the meeting time, altogether, Rs. 127, 260/- was the amount raised for supporting Bajura Landslide victims and affected families.
• Phurba Sange Moktan updated about the status of Bajura. After the communication with Mr. Laxman Joshi, updates about the current status were gathered. He informed that, cloths and medicine reached to Martadi. According to him, the entire collected fund for victims support will be handed over by him to local committee with a program in between 10-12.
2. Further Step:
• As the detailed and concrete information are not found yet and logistics are not submitted to the families yet. We concluded that fund raising activities will be continued for few more days, till Monday afternoon.
• Conclusion meeting for further steps will be held on Monday. For this meeting Mr. Prajwal Shrestha, Dr. Suman Kumar Shakya, Mr. Bhushan Tuladhar and Mr. Manjit Dhakal will be requested to participate on the meeting. So, that they can lead and conclude the meeting in a very productive.
• Mr. Rajan Thapa from NYCA has committed to gather information on current situation till Monday.
• Also Mr. Laxman Joshi was requested to explore the current real situation to direct the Campaign in proper path.
• Decision was made to provide” Letter of Appreciation” to institution/ organization.
• The amount raised for the support of Landslide Victims will be transferred to the affected areas through HRC, local NGO.
From students and staffs of different colleges and organization we had collected Rs.111276/- so far.For detail Contribution .
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgEXKXBQ7aqhdElSdmRDS2UxbkZwekFaQ3IyRy1Ya1E#gid=0
Thank you for all your support so far. Need more supports.
We have planned emergency meeting-3 tomorrow, Wednesday 20th June, 2012 at 3 pm at ENPHO Hall. We expect for your participation and idea for ahead.
Initiatives can be taken to support the cause:
1.Directly contribute fund that you can
2. Make concern others and raise fund from your circle or colleagues.
3.Contribute foods, medicines,clothes and others that could be useful for the victims and affected families.
4.If you are students or teachers or staff from any college please coordinate to make a documentary show and fund raising program.We have short video clip that shows how the Bajura landslide emergency affecting lives. (taken from Avenues TV)
5. If you are birthday girl or, boy, you can contribute BIRTHDAY GOOD DEEDS.
6. You can contribute Rs. 100 for a cup or, Rs. 300/- for a t-shirt. The amount directly goes to affected families and victims.
7. Either you can contribute some logistics from which we can raise fund through contribution.
8. If you wish to do even more, support a family or, child or, elderly people for a week, support equivalent amount. (Rs. 10000 for a family, Rs. 1000 for child or, elderly)
9. Keep writing on FB, Blogs, Twitter, like social media and raise concern of public and policy influencers/makers.
Recent updates from Bajura-Kolti Landslide affected area (June 19, 2012):
Through recent conversation with Laxman Joshi, HRC, Local NGO from Martadi, Bajura we got following information:
1. He just reached to Martadi, Bajura from Kolti today.
2. He approached to CDO, Bajura and said details about the fund raised. They made the conclusion that the fund should be directly sent to the affected families. So, Instead of sending to DDRC Fund, the fund will be sent separately with a program with a local committee in between 24-26 June, 2012. I requested to him to make it on 24 or, earlier possible in order to make it quick relief to them. He requested to join the meeting somebody from Ktm too to make them feel supportive for them. (CDO announced the relief amount for them on the program participated by Prime Minister last saturday)
3. I requested Laxman sir to for sending fund through Organizational account. So, that audit process will be seen more transparent and reliable for us as well. He accepted that and will send it by tommarrow.
4. By tomarrow, he will also confirmed details about the clothes and medicine we sent. He said he will call tommarrow once.
5. So far the primary needs are for foods, utensils and shelters (pals). He said that DDRC and DWSS has committed 3 lakh each (six lakh together) for water supply repairment. He doesn't know the detail updates if the work has already been started or, not with tranforing of Budgets. Shelter (Pals) provided by NRCS is not working now due to winds.
Emergency meeting-2
Emergency Meeting-2 was held on 17th June, 2012 from 2-4 pm at ENPHO
Important updates from the meeting:
1. I updated about so far update and progress among 21 participants from PP, NYCA, YDRR, Rotaract midtown, Karnali college, Trichandra college and Kathmandu Eng. College.
2. Documentary show and fund raising from NAMS, NIHS, MRM Academy and Karnali college. By three days, 8 more colleges will be approached and further more fund will be raised. Similarly, fund raising from organizational staffs will also be approached.
3. Manjeet dai facilitated the action planning for next three days.
4. Upto the meeting time, Rs. 93178/- has been collected.
5. Next emergency meeting-3 will be done on Wednesday 3 pm at ENPHO Hall.
Emergency meeting-1
Meeting Note:
Meeting Date: June 14, 2012, Thursday
Meeting Venue: ENPHO Hall, Thapagaun
Meeting Time: 3-5 pm
In order to collect more support for flood Victim at Bajura an emergency meeting was called on 14th June, 2012, Thursday 3pm at ENPHO Hall, Thapagaun. Different youths and youth group representative were presented on the meeting and had open discussion for supporting landslide victims of Bajura.:
Past Updates, Action Plan for further support were agendas for discussion:
Meeting concluded following points:
• For fund Collection: ENPHO Emergency Fund has been created at Nepal Bangladesh Bank, New-Baneshwor with Account No.005185361 ‘S’
• So far we had collected Rs. 25,125/-
List of contributors with amount
S.No Name of Contributors Contributed amount
1. “paschim paaila” Emergency Relief Fund Rs.10,000/-
2. UN-HABITAT Rs.10,000/-
3. Suman Kumar Shakya Rs.1000/-
4. Rajesh Adhikari Rs. 1000/-
5. Rabin Bastola Rs.700/-
6. Kamala K.C Rs.500/-
7. Phurba Sange Moktan Rs.120/-
8. Sasmita Poudel Rs.105/-
9. Merina Shakya Rs. 200/-
10. Fund through “Epidemic Free Nepal” T-Shirt selling (5pcs x 300) Rs. 1500/-
• Meeting was conducted with the facilitation of Dr. Suman Kumar Shakya, Mr. Madan Malla, Mr. Rajesh Adhikari, Mr. Rabin Bastola and Mr. Manjeet Dhakal.
• Core team was formed with 5 members representing one focal person from “paschim paaila”, NYCA, YDRR, Rotract Dillibazar and Nepal Mountain Bike. Following are contact details of focal person form core team:
Youth Group Name of Focal Person Contact No.
“paschim paaila” Phurba Sange Moktan 9851141328
Rotract Dillibazar Satish Pandey 9843074215
NYCA Lalmani Wagle 9841851825
YDRR Binod Parajuli 9849476569
Nepal Mountain Bike Sudip Poudel 9841726829
• As Kolti is at remote place so as 1st support two volunteers are approaching to Dhangadi with so far collected fund, clothes and medicine by this Saturday which will be handed to Human Resource Centre (HRC) at Dhangadi.
• Cloths are collected by Rotaract Club of Dillibazar.
• NYCA will coordinate with Help Nepal.
• For Medicine Rajesh Adhikari and Phurba Sange Moktan will be focal person. Mr. Rajesh Adhikari has contributed 150 pcs Piyush to support the victims.
• The chairman of Help Nepal.Net (Arun Sing Basnet), has commit to provide cloths as much as we required, Lalmani and Shankar from NCYA will collect it by tomorrow morning.
• Next meeting is scheduled for: Coming Sunday, June 17, 2012 at 2 pm at ENPHO Hall. On that meeting other interested youths and youth groups are also called to participate.
Pictures of Bajura Landslide Victims and affected families
Covering deaths...
Pictures of Bajura Landslide Victims and affected families
The sorrow of loving beloved.....
Kolti bazar after devastative landslide....
Covering deaths...
Pain for food after landslide...
(Picture taken on June 5, 2012, Source: HRC-Bajura)
Call
for Action
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Please contribute to help
Bajura Landslide Victims
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“Your small help can make a big difference!!!”
31st May 2012 9:30 pm: A
devastating landslide triggered by intensive rains washed away 57 houses and shops and left five
people dead and many injured in the remote village of Pipaldali, located
in ward 9 of Bandhu VDC, Bajura. It also destroyed the Kolti Water Supply
System, Kolti Primary Health Centre, 4-5 km of Kolti Pipaldali road, 50-60
ropanis of agricultural land and local irrigation systems.
The victims are all from poor families and
many are “Dalits”
Currently there are needs for food, shelter, water supply and sanitation, health care and
psycho-social counselling.
We call everyone to support
this campaign. All your support will go directly
towards supporting the needy people in Bajura in a transparent manner.
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Avenus (@) Television has also telecasted the emergency.
Go through the link:
http://youtu.be/LZJSUz3HqWY (part one), http://youtu.be/xLcy7fTKdHw (part two), http://youtu.be/En5QnaMKReE(part three)
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If you want to provide financial support, please deposit
your contribution at:
A/C: ENPHO-Emergency
Fund, A/C No.005185361 ‘S’, Nepal Bangladesh Bank, New-Baneshwor
(So far Rs. 1,05,426/-has
been collected to support the victim upto Monday, June 18, 2012, 5 pm. For
details. Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgEXKXBQ7aqhdElSdmRDS2UxbkZwekFaQ3IyRy1Ya1E&pli=1#gid=0)
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Pachim Paaila, a youth-led campaign against diarrhoea
epidemic, together with other concerned organizations, is launching a campaign
to immediately in collaboration with various youths and youth groups mobilize
much needed support for the landslide victims. So far NYCA, YDRR, Rotaract Club
of Dillibazar, Nepal Montain Bike and Rotaract Club of Kathmandu Midtown have
joint their hands. This includes fund raising for emergency supplies,
mobilizing a team of health care professionals to visit the area, and providing
support for improved water, sanitation and hygiene. All support will be
provided through local organizations and in coordination with the District
Disaster Relief Committee.
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For more
information, please visit:
http://paschim-paaila.blogspot.com/p/knowing-paschim-paaila.html or contact
Paschim Paaila at 4468641, 4493188 or moktanphurba20@gmail.com or, FB Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/160589800739446/permalink/161804237284669/?notif_t=like
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