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SRISTI's
Initiatives for Earthquake Relief & Rehabilitation efforts
in Gujarat:
SRISTI has been actively involved in relief and
rehabilitation
work in earthquake affected areas of Gujarat particularly
Kutch. Included is an insight into SRISTI's
activities along with IIMA (IIMACORE)
and GIAN.
 SRISTI
& IIMACORE team Visit to Kutch:
Prof. Anil K Gupta along with other NGO's & members of IIMACORE working in the relief work took a trip to the
affected areas and visited Bhuj, Rapar & Bachao. Prof.
Gupta shared his first hand observation of the situation and
visualized the rehabilitation plan for the affected area at a lecture
in Ahmedabad Management Association.
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SRISTI
Relief Team:
SRISTI's was amongst the first team to reach Kutch. This
advance team took up the initiative to setup camp and help build up the relief center in
Nilpar village of Rapar Taluka.
The center for relief activity was developed at "Gram
Swaraj Sangh" a Gandhian Institute. From this center
the team provided medical treatment & distributed relief
material to the affected people in Rapar Taluka. The team also
started an effort to collect data for damage assessment in the
area and tried to establish co-ordination between various
NGO's and medical teams that arrived at this center.
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SRISTI
Relief Team: First team replace by second team
A second team of SRISTI replaced the first team and
established its camp in Nilpar. This team took over the
Shodhyatra route (Shodhyatra-II)
and tried to asses the damage in the villages in which people
had been part
of the Honey Bee Network. After this assessment some of the
relief material being collected with the support of IIMACORE
community was also diverted there.
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Resource
Mobilization:
SRISTI mobilized several teams of doctors from, Bangalore, St.
Stephens New Delhi etc, HAM radio operators, volunteers,
structural engineers, seismologists, experts from CSIR
Institutes. SRISTI staff was involved in direct relief work as
well as provided support both material, resources, computers
etc to IIMACORE control center.
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Disaster
Management Information System:
SRISTI have taken up the initiatives in compiling a database
and expert system for disaster
management. Through this efforts SRISTI is trying to
network initiatives, experiences of individual and
institutions worldwide to create a database of do's and don'ts
at the time of a disaster (Emergency
Preparedness). At the same time a effort is being made to
develop an online database of resources and volunteers, who
can volunteer
online. To be contacted during the time of disasters by
respective Disaster Management Authorities
of states as well as NGO's and other organizations working in
relief & rehabilitation.
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Sikshan Sodh
Evam Shram Arpan Yatra:
SRISTI
's Shodhyatra (Shodhyatra
VII) with a difference, was a step in trying to rebuild the education
process, in earthquake affected areas covering 14 villages of
Rapar Taluka.
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Networking
Innovative Teachers for Educational Rehabilitation:
SRISTI & IIMACORE has initiated a project with the school children in the
earthquake affected areas. The problem of parents migrating in
search of employment and at the same time taking the children
with them led to large no. of such school children no access
to education, in the aftermath of earthquake the drain was
much more. SRISTI took up the task of limiting migration of
school going children's, with the aim to stop all such
migration. One of the reason for such migration was lack of
interest and innovative methods in the Primary school
teachers. Hence lesser interest in students to actually come
to school at all. SRISTI realized this problem and through its Shodhyatra "Sikshan Sodh
Evam Shram Arpan Yatra" tried to impress on the
parents to send there children's to school. Some President
awards winners school teacher from across Gujarat volunteered
to take the initiative in introducing interesting / innovative
methods of teaching in students. One such teacher is Mr. Raman
Lal Soni, who through his different approach of learning engaged
students and actually created an interest in coming to School.
SRISTI helped in rebuilding of the schools and provided "Gyan
Kosh" besides other school material to the students. More
about the project go to "School
Project".
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