PROJECT DAY 1 PHOTOS & "PROJECT DAY 2 PHOTOS"

- Diarrohea Spreads fast, 1000 hospitalised - 12 Aug 2007
-S Asia victims face health crisis - BBC News 08 Aug 2007


BACKGROUND: Due to heavy flooding in Bangladesh, thousands of poor people affected by flooding took shelter in schools and other government buildings. Children from poor homes were needlessly dying from preventable illnesses mainly water born diseases like diarrohea. We appealed for help and some of you donated. That along with our money from our own salaries, we carried out the work below and stretched the money as far as we could to maximise the number of people we could help.

PROJECT DAY 1 (Friday 17 Aug 2007)
Location: Keraniganj, Bangladesh
How: 500 Individuals Given Aid Parcels

It took several days to organise ourselves and gather volunteers and purchase relief goods (some things are scarce). We then had to pack everying into waterproof aid parcels that will be easy to carry and to swim with (see below). Most victims were living on top of their roof-tops and food was scarce.

Many thanks to our group of hardworking volunteers who have donated their time towards this flood relief programme.	Loading the motorised boat with essential relief goods. 500 people were given packets containing rice, biscuits, water purification tablets, Orsaline Anti Diarrhoea kits and sugar.
Distribution begins in Keraniganj	Desparate people receiving aid.
A Mercy Mankind volunteer helps a flood victim from a sinking boat.

PROJECT DAY 2 (Monday 27 Aug 2007)
Location: Kamrangir Char, Dhaka, Bangladesh
How: 250+ people given hot lunches +dinner and health advice.

The people of kamrangir Char are mostly all very poor. They include day
labourers, rickshaw drivers, van drivers, beggers, disabled people and their
dependant families. They normally live in a slum made of bamboo on the banks
of river "Buri Ganga". The floods have swallowed up their homes causing them to
flee with whatever they could salvage. When Mercy Mankind visited them, what we
saw and witnessed was truly very sad. The suffering of the elderly, women and
children, ill health and lack of food and clothing was terrible. Mercy Mankind's
7 volunteers cooked over 500 meals and fed 250 people twice that day.
The menu was rice stew (kisuri) with lentils and vegetables.

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	Once again , Many thanks to our hardworking volunteers without whom we could not have done this. People queing up for the evening meal. Below are some photos showing how the day had unfolded.....
Helping prepare the food in the morning. The man in the vest is the chef	Using clean, bottled water in the cooking. Using anything else is unhygenic
A volunteer looks on as the pot goes on the stove.	A Mercy Mankind volunteer helps out in the kitchen
Waiting for lunch	Lining up for dinner...
A volunteer pours out food to a man who is collecting for his family
	Thank you for helping us.

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