Join in the Relief Effort for Cyclone Aila and update from CDRN

Join in the Relief Effort for Cyclone Aila and update from CDRN
Cyclone Aila with winds upto 120km/hr battered our Eastern Coasts, uprooting trees, flooding villages, snapping power cables and leaving a trail of destruction behind. There are thousands of homeless people who need clean drinking water, food, medicines and shelter urgently.
Please visit - www.cdrn.org.in to highlight your needs and offers.
Victims of Cyclone Aila Need Your Help
This is an hour we all should come together and show our wholehearted support for the cyclone victims. It is critical that the immediate needs such as food, drinking water and medicine are provided to those affected.
Corporate Disaster Resource Network Marketing (CDRN) Team has been active and is in continuous touch with various relief agencies working in West Bengal such as Udyama, Catholic Relief Services, Save the Children, SPADE, WWF, Ramakrishna Mission, Action Aid, IGSSS, Mukti, INSS, Child in Need Institute (CINI), DRCSC, HCWS, Mukti India, KJKS, Caritas India, Nav Bhartiya Nari Vikas Samiti who have posted their specific needs at our Network. We have received around 105 needs on our Network.
We would request more relief agencies to become users and highlight your needs at www.cdrn.org.in or contact Swati- 9899740585, Madhvi- 9899783541 for more information about CDRN.

To Donate, Supply or Provide your services and products to the below mentioned needs, please click here http://www.aidmatrixnetwork.org/CDRN-India/PublicPortal/ListOfNeeds.aspx?PortalID=118- or contact Swati- 9899740585, Madhvi- 9899783541. We hope you will provide maximum support. We all should come together to rush aid and relief to those affected.
Food- Pre cooked, cooked, baby food, dry ration etc
Tarpaulin, temporary shelters
Purification units and tablets for clean drinking water
Medicines - anti diarrhea, anti vomit, Hygiene Material (bleaching, Phenyl, limb), Halogen tablets
Clothes
Generator , Fuel
Rehabilitation Needs
Seed for paddy cultivation and vegetable gardening
Help for making & repairing ICDS, Kitchen room of the mid day meal scheme, Sishu Siksha Kendra and Madhyamik Siksha Kendra
Education materials for the children of affected marginalized families.
The latest Situation Reports
“Aquatab, company manufacuring water purification tablets has sent more than 1 million water purification tablets in West Bengal affected regions through various international Relief agencies working the affected regions”, Vijay Mallick , country Manager Aquatabs told CDRN team.
“Breakout of water born diseases is a major concern in the Aila affected regions now. Storm-hit areas are now facing shortage of portable water ; the condition of women and children is miserable as medical assistance is inadequate especially in the Sunderbans area. People in storm affected areas have lost all their assets and are selling their domestic animals for of some money” Ansuman Das Director Sabuj Sangha told to CDRN team.
Reach out with your Needs through SMS initiative by IAG West Bengal- report mentions some of the important contact details of relief agencies that are working in Aila Affected areas in West Bengal- click here to read more http://www.cdrn.org.in/show.detail.asp?id=20915
Update on Cyclone Aila- by Sabuj Sangha- report states the number of districts and villages affected from cyclone Aila click here to read more-http://www.cdrn.org.in/show.detail.asp?id=20910
UNICEF provides supplies for cyclone-affected West Bengal report mentions UNICEF reaching out to the victims of Cyclone Aila in West Bengal click here to read more
Oxfam helping Aila affected communities report states Cyclone survivors in Bangladesh are now facing a severe risk of disease as the supply of safe drinking water is reaching crisis levels click here to read more
Disaster-prone Bangladesh trials cell phone alerts is a case study that mentions Tens of thousands of mobile users in Bangladesh's flood and cyclone-prone areas will now receive advance warning of an impending natural disaster through an alert on their cell phones click here to read more
Corporate Disaster Resource Network (CDRN) is a web based Humanitarian Relief management system that helps Relief, Response agencies and Government to access and feed in real time information on products and services required and offered for emergency humanitarian relief. The Corporate Disaster Response Network, (CDRN) has been launched under the Auspices of the Corporate Task Force of the National Disaster Management Authority, (NDMA) and is an initiative of CSO Partners and Aidmatrix.
At present CDRN has 750 members across 22 states including federations, companies and relief agencies such as Britannia , ITC , Cadbury , Eureka Forbes , Kohinoor Food Limited, Bajaj Allianz, Hitachi Home, Hope Foundations, Care , WWF, Action aid. Some of the federations with us:
Federation of Indian Mining Industries (FIMI),
All India Food Processor Association (AIFPA),
Assam Industrial Development Corp. (AIDC),
Federation of Indian Biscuits Manufacturers (FIBM),
All-India Stainless Steel Association (AISSA),
Indian Printing Packaging and Allied Machinery Manufacturers Association (IPPAMMA),
Federation of Indian Export Organization (FIEO),
Gurgaon Chamber of Commerce (GCC),
Confederation of Indian Food Trade and Industry (CIFTI),
Fertilizer Association of India (FAI),
Federation of Indian Industries (FII),
Agricultural and Processed Foods Export Development Authority (APEDA) and many more
We are working towards integrating with many more State and National Industry Federations for swift local response mechanism. You will be glad to hear about the successful Roundtable with over 35 companies represented held for the inaugural advisory board held at NDMA on 28th April 09. We have also launched the Orissa State CDRN on 29th April' 09 and plans to have other state launches in the coming months.
Join us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Blog Orkut, Google Groups, to know more about our organization and connect with fellow CDRN members and build your network.
IFRC ready to respond to Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic -report states “the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is ready to further support Red Cross and Red Crescent societies in their response to Influenza A (H1N1) following the World Health Organization’s 11 June announcement that the pandemic alert has moved into Phase 6. click here to read more


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