REPORT – 6
HANDS Report on Nepal Earthquake Relief
July 3rd, 2015
Background Situation:
Two months have passed since a 7.8 magnitude earthquake ravaged Nepal on April 25 2015. Since then, the country has experienced hundreds of aftershocks, including a pair with a magnitude of 7.3 and 6.3 on 12 May. These earthquakes and aftershocks have had a devastating effect and directly affected millions of people. Among other things, it has led to the loss of thousands of lives, the displacement of over 110,000 people, and the destruction of billions of dollars of property. HANDS international Nepal team is working in close partnership with the Government of Nepal and local partners to respond to the urgent needs of victims specially women, children and older in earthquake affected districts in Nepal.
HANDS International Nepal team provided emergency relief support by providing temporary shelter support to 301 families, food items to 484 and medical services to 405 persons.
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HANDS International team along with teachers and community helping construction of temporary learning center in VDC Papaldanda in Sindhupalchowk district. |
HANDS International signed MoU with Nepal education department to support process of reopening of schools by constructing temporary learning centers TLCs in 04 schools, till end of June HANDS completed construction of 5 TLCs with 11 class rooms in two schools with support of Medico International Germany helping 500 children to start their educational and recreation activities. School kit, ECD kit and recreation kits were also provided in these TLCs. These TLCs were handed over to school committee and children in presence of UN HQ based Mr. John Ging, Director UN-OCHA, District Education officer, National Education cluster team, community, and teacher. Medico International funded for construction of 15 TLCs along with provision of schools kits ( School, ECD and recreation kits) and WASH. Considering the damages in Sindhupalchowk where 95% schools are damaged in earthquake. HANDS International on request of district education department expanding its temporary learning centers program to other two VDCs.
HANDS International on request of National Education cluster Visited district Okhaldung, about 08 hours travel from Kathmandu to reach Okhaldunga. HANDS International committed to support 10 schools committees by providing CGI (ZINC/IRON) sheets to build temporary learning centers in monsoon season, HANDS International is co lead for district cluster along with Govt and street child UK. HANDS International along with UK Based NGO Street Child submitted joint proposal to UNICEF for TLCs support in Okhaldunga district.
HANDS International Nepal supported 301 families by providing emergency shelter material in badly damaged areas of Lalitpur district
HANDS international with support of Abu Faisal Trust UK distributed food to 66 families in Lalitpur district.
Domain name for HANDS International Nepal was registered as “handsinternational.org.np” through national mercantile Registration Services
MERCANTILE-COMMUNICATIONS-Kathmandu.
HANDS International registration and general agreement with Nepalese Social Welfare Council SWC was approved from SWC board and forwarded to 12 ministries board for final approval. This process was highlighted by one of largest circulated newspaper of Nepal The Himalayan Times mentioning HANDS International name among INGOs applied for registration with Govt of Nepal to work in Nepal.
Collaboration:
HANDS International team is working in close coordination with Government and local partners aiming at maximizing the efficiency of our interventions and developing god liaison and networking, HANDS Nepal team participated in various cluster meetings held in concerned departments offices, UN House, Lalitpur.. Meetings with UNESCO, UNICEF, Islamic Relief, Street Child UK, and ACTED teams were conducted to discuss any possible partnership opportunities. HANDS team with facilitation of ECCA team
Children of Sidi Kamala Devi school,VDC Pipaldanda, sindhupakchowk in joyfull mood after restoring school and recreation activities in newly constructed Temporary Learning Centers. HANDS International with support of Medico International constructed 06 temporary class rooms in this school.
conducted many meetings with other NGOs and Government authorities and departments. The purpose of these meetings was to gather the information about the earthquake affected areas and the population, priority needs of the survivors and to share the HANDS plan for the relief activities.
The lower secondary school Dakshnikali is located in the municipality of Chauatara in ward 1, formerly VDC Pipaldanda district Sindhupalchowk which is almost 4 hours from Kathmandu.
The school was devastated by earthquake on 25th April and aftershock on 12th May leaving its 125 kids learning in appalling and dangerous conditions.
Although the school is not too far from Chauatara town (district headquarter) due to hills and poor infrastructure it is challenging to access to school.
In Response: But these challenges didn’t put us off and at the beginning of May 2015 HANDS International began work to construct Temporary Learning Centers by constructing 5 temporary classrooms using bamboos, tarpaulin sheets, CGI sheets for 125 children. Till date 08 temporary learning centers have completed providing 16 classrooms in schools.
The earthquakes destroyed or heavily damaged over 32,000 classrooms in Nepal and we need your support to help get more kids back to school
Please consider donating today to support HANDS projects like this one.
HANDS early relief packages included the provision of emergency shelter, mobile medical services and dry food ration provision to affected families. The area situation analysis and assessment, then the beneficiaries assessment were carried out by the HANDS & ECCA teams with consultation of the district government and local VDC (village development committees). The beneficiaries forms were filled and token were issued, verified by the representatives of local government officials and community representatives. The summary of beneficiaries is given in table:
| S. No. | Relief Package | Geographical Area | No. of Beneficiaries Families | No. of persons benefited |
| 1 | Mobile Medical camps | District Sindhupalchowk including Chautara Municipality, Chautara ward 2 (Guarati), Bagh Bazar, ChagulaTole, Baspati; in Milamchi at Kharka and Talamara | 405 | |
| 2 | Food (dry ration package for 7 days) | District Sindhupalchowk, Chautara Municipality | 484 | 3388 |
| 3 | Emergency Shelter | District Lalitpur, VDC Dalchoki | 301 | 2107 |
| TOTAL | Two districts | 5886 |
Emergency Shelters
After the need assessment of the area, the beneficiaries’ assessment was conducted in VDC – Dalchoki.
It has been selected for temporary shelter distribution, as all 299 houses are destroyed or damaged.
301 Tarpaulin sheets along with 3000 nails and ropes were distributed in Ward 1 to 9 of VDC Dalchoki, to 301 families. (286+15)
The solar lights were also distributed among the lactating women, to the Health post staff and birthing station staff as the power supply is remained disconnected since earthquake.
- Chlorine solution is distributed among the 200 families in ward 6 and 3, to purify water for drinking purposes.Mobile Medical Services:
HANDS initiated health services through conduction of Mobile Medical Camps with financial support of Medico International and local collaborative partner ECCA. A
Overall report of 4 Medical Camps:
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Diseases % Total Patients < 5 Years > 5 Years Male Female Male Female Diarrhea 3.2 13 3 – 5 5 Dysentery 0.0 – – – – – ARI 24.9 101 12 10 34 45 Suspected Malaria 0.0 – – – – – Suspected Measles 0.0 – Skin Disease 4.2 17 2 1 2 12 Eye Infections 1.2 5 1 – 1 3 Fractures 0.2 1 – – 1 – Injuries 9.4 38 – – 26 12 Others 56.8 230 6 2 91 131 Total 405 24 13 160 208 Total 405 patients were treated by HANDS-ECCA medical team in 4 days and most of them were female 51%, male 40% and children under 5 years of age 9%.
Distribution of Patients on Gender and Age basis:
Disease Pattern and Age wise proportion of Patients:
Only 13 patients of diarrhea reported which are 3 children, 5 male and female. Highest number of cases reported was 101 of acute respiratory infections. Among these were 22 children below five years of age, 34 male and 45 female. Total 38 patients treated of injuries, mostly of minor wounds, bruises and blunt injuries. All of these were above than 5 years of age and mostly male (26).
Food Distribution:
- After the situation analysis and need assessment, HANDS and ECCA team jointly decided to provide the dry Food ration to the needy families. The food package included the Rice 20 kg, Pulses 2 kg, Sugar 2 kg, cooking oil 2 liters and salt 1 kg. This package is for 7 days food for a family of 7 members each. The initial beneficiary assessment forms were filled and tokens were issued through the Municipality committee officials. Then on mutually agreed two food distribution sites/points were identified and selected. The tokens were verified on date of distribution and food package were given to the 484 families.
HANDS Introduction:
HANDS was founded by Prof. A. G. Billoo (Sitara-e-Imtiaz) in 1979. HANDS has evolved in 34 years as one of the largest Non-Profit Organization of the country with integrated development model and disaster management expertise. HANDS has a network of 31 offices across the country and has access to more than 16.2 million population nearly 20,274 villages/ settlement in 44 districts of Pakistan. HANDS strength is 18 volunteer Board Members, more than 1700 full time staff and thousands of community based volunteers of more than 5200 community based partner organizations.
HANDS has a vast experience to deal with Emergencies during the recent disasaters in the cuntry.
- Punjab Flood Emergency Response September 2014Emergency response was initiated within 24 hours in District MuzzafarGarh, Multan, MandiBahauddin, Jhang, Chiniot, Hafizabad, Sialkot &Rajanpur more than 12000 beneficiaries received relief package from HANDS and are still continue.
2. Drought in Tharparkar in March 2014:Drought in Tharparkar March 2014 Relief Packages provided to 6000 Families in 2 Months . . Nutrition support (April to June 2014): (6 to 59 months) children total cured (MAM & SAM) 1480 . Nutrition support (July to Sep 2014): (6 to 59 months)children total cured (MAM & SAM) 5502.
3. IDPs of North Waziristan Agency 2014:
Emergency Response was initiated within 36 hours to provide assistance to IDPs at Bannu, KP. 4.Drought in Tharparkar in March 2014: : Emergency Response was initiated within 5 hours and Relief package was provided to 6,000 families in 2 months. 5. Earthquake in Awaran Baluchistan in October 2013:
Emergency response was initiated within 8 hours & comprehensive relief package was provided in hard conditions and conflicted areas within two months to 10,000 families.
- Rain Emergency 2012 in Northern Sindh, South Punjab &Balochistan:
- Emergency response was initiated within 6 hours. Distribution of emergency relief package was provided to 27000 families within 2 months
- Rain Emergency 2011 in Southern Districts of Sindh:Emergency response was initiated within 8 hours in 8 districts. 29000 families were reached within 2 moths
- Flood Emergency 2010: Emergency response was initiated within 4 hours in northern Sindh & 36,000 families were reached within 1 month.
- Kashmir Earthquake 2005Emergency response was initiated within 24 hours at Batgram more than 1000 patients / clients were treated.
- Badin Cyclone 2002
- HANDS emergency response was initiated within 6 hours at Badin and more than 700 patients / clients were treated.ECCA Introduction:
ECCA (environmental Camps for Conservation Awareness) was established in July 1987 as a nonprofit, non-political, non-government organization. ECCA is registered in Government of Nepal, District Administration Office, Jwagol, Kupondol-10, Lalitpur Kathmandu and affiliated with Social Welfare Council, Kathmandu. ECCA has been a leading organization in the sector of social mobilization and community development. It implements various programs so as to raise the quality of life through wise-use of available local resources and application of alternate and renewable technologies.
- Contact Information:
In Nepal
HANDS International country office Nepal: Contact Person: Waseem Solangi House # 254/20 Okharbot Marga, New Baneshower Opposite to Societal School , Kathmandu, Nepal, Phone: +00977- 9813347891
In Pakistan
HANDS Head Office
Contact Person:
- Shaikh Tanveer Ahmed, Chief Executive, HANDS Pakistan & International
Cell: +92-300-8200507
Email: tanveer.ahmed@hands.org.pk
Cell: +92-346-8209538
Email: ghulam.mustafa@hands.org.pk
- Muhammad Raheem Marri, General Manager Disaster Management Program HANDS
Cell: +92-346-8209561
Email: raheem.marri@hands.org.pk
Address:
- No. 140-C, Block-2, PECHS, Karachi, Pakistan
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In London
HANDS International
Address:
Head Office: 483 Green Lanes, London N13 4BS, United Kingdom.
Tel: 020 3633 3679 – from outside UK +44 20 3633 3679
- Ghulam Mustafa Zaor, General Manager, IDEAS program HANDS
- Kashmir Earthquake 2005Emergency response was initiated within 24 hours at Batgram more than 1000 patients / clients were treated.
- Flood Emergency 2010: Emergency response was initiated within 4 hours in northern Sindh & 36,000 families were reached within 1 month.
- Punjab Flood Emergency Response September 2014Emergency response was initiated within 24 hours in District MuzzafarGarh, Multan, MandiBahauddin, Jhang, Chiniot, Hafizabad, Sialkot &Rajanpur more than 12000 beneficiaries received relief package from HANDS and are still continue.
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