ORGANIZATIONS SUPPORTING CYCLONE SURVIVORS
Bangladesh
BRAC
BRAC has initiated extensive emergency relief operations in the immediate aftermath of cyclone SIDR, which swept across Bangladesh on 15 November. From its own funds, an initial commitment of USD 1 million has already been made by BRAC towards providing relief to the victims and for livelihood rehabilitation operations. BRAC hopes to mobilize an additional USD 1 million for emergency relief and rehabilitation. BRAC the largest NGO in Bangladesh and one of the largest in the world, had 229 branches affected by the cyclone with a total population of approximately 10 million. 1,100 BRAC schools/centrers have been damaged. BRAC has already started relief work. Click here to donate
Bangladesh Red Crescent Society
Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) has appealed for 400 million taka (about 5.7 million U.S. dollars) in international assistance for the cyclone victims in the country. It has already started work to dispatch relief items to the affected areas. Around 42,000 volunteers of the Red Crescent Society worked continuously in the coastal areas during the storm and the efforts saved the lives of many people. Click here to donate
Bangladesh Chief Advisor's Relief and Welfare Fund
Those who are interested in going through government channels, can donate to the Bangladesh Chief Advisors' Relief and Welfare Fund. You can find the guidelines in the Bangladesh Embassy (Washington DC) page. Click here to donate
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Canada
Canadian Red Cross
The Canadian Red Cross is appealing to the public to give generously to help more than 500,000 people affected by this disaster. Funds raised will be used to provide survivors with basic supplies, emergency shelter, and to ensure people have access to health care and clean water. More detailed assessments are being carried out to determine the longer-term needs of vulnerable communities. Click here to donate
Oxfam Canada
Oxfam Canada has launched a Bangladesh Cyclone appeal, calling on the Canadian public to donate generously for the cyclone stricken area. Oxfam has been working with local partners since Cyclone Sidr struck with teams in the worst-hit southern districts of Daerhat, Pirojpur, Barguna and Patuakhali assessing and providing urgent relief such as sanitation and food and water. The money raised will be used to continue to provide immediate relief to over 80,000 people - essential sanitation, food and water, shelter, well and latrine cleaning, and debris clearing, as well as helping people get back on their feet. Click here to donate
Plan
A Plan Disaster Assessment Team has been dispatched to the most severely affected area of southern Bangladesh to work with our partner agencies to identify how Plan staff can best assist children and their families in those communities.Plan Canada is accepting donations to help provide emergency relief and address recovery needs in the coming days and weeks. Click here to donate
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United Kingdom
ActionAid
ActionAid has sent assessment teams to the affected areas to gauge needs. They carried with them and are already delivering clean water, and will be providing dry food, oral rehydration solutions and water purification tablets. We are also starting to prepare for the long-term, and are already planning how to support families and communities to rebuild their homes and their livelihoods. Click here to donate
British Red Cross
The British Red Cross has launched an appeal to help hundreds of thousands of people affected by the Bangladesh cyclone. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is carrying out assessment and assistance operations in the affected areas to help the most vulnerable people affected by the cyclone. They are providing emergency shelter, food supplies and basic healthcare for survivors. Click here to donate
Oxfam – UK
Before the cyclone struck, around 1,000 volunteers from our Bangladeshi partner organizations helped to evacuate villagers. Oxfam UK is currently coordinating and sharing information with the Bangladeshi government. Through their local partner organizations, they have started delivering aid in some of the worst affected districts in southern Bangladesh. Part of their work includes giving cash in return for clean-up work - mobilizing people to remove debris and clear out water points and sanitation facilities. Assessments show immediate needs are dry foods, shelter, clothes and water and sanitation facilities. Click here to donate
CARE International
CARE was on the scene working with government authorities and local partners to provide needed relief supplies and safe drinking water. Click here to donate
Save the Children – UK
Save the Children was on the ground preparing for the cyclone before it hit. It has been operating boat-ambulances and has begun handing out life-saving supplies including food, plastic sheeting to build shelters, blankets, water containers, treatments for diarrhoea and 100,000 water purification tablets. Click here to donate
World Vision – UK
World Vision will provide 9,300 temporary shelters and is already distributing seven-day relief packs for families. Emergency teams are also providing first aid services to those hurt by falling rubble or trees. Click here to donate
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United States
BRAC - US
BRAC has initiated extensive emergency relief operations in the immediate aftermath of cyclone SIDR, which swept across Bangladesh on 15 November. From its own funds, an initial commitment of USD 1 million has already been made by BRAC towards providing relief to the victims and for livelihood rehabilitation operations. BRAC hopes to mobilize an additional USD 1 million for emergency relief and rehabilitation. BRAC the largest NGO in Bangladesh and one of the largest in the world, had 229 branches affected by the cyclone with a total population of approximately 10 million. 1,100 BRAC schools/centrers have been damaged. BRAC has already started relief work. Click here to donate
World Vision - US
In the face of a monster cyclone that made landfall Thursday in Bangladesh, more than 600,000 were evacuated to shelters. World Vision staff worked with volunteers to house 20,000 of the displaced in World Vision-built cyclone shelters. Click here to donate
CARE
CARE has sent five mobile water purification plants, each capable of producing 10,000 litres of fresh drinking water a day, to Khulna on Bangladesh's coast. In addition, CARE began delivering emergency food rations, plastic sheeting, candles, and plastic water containers to 5,000 families, once the storm had passed. CARE has also provided 15 pumps to remove polluted salt water from areas where it is likely to cause contamination. Five medical teams are being kept on stand-by to move to affected areas if needed. Click here to donate
Save the Children- US
Save the Children was one of few humanitarian agencies with emergency responders positioned in the path of the storm, remote and low-lying areas still recovering from extreme flooding last summer. The agency has begun distributing thousands of essential items for survival including eating supplies, plastic sheeting, water containers, and basic treatment for diarrhea as well as thousands of blankets and 100,000 water purification tablets. In one area Save the Children staff have used boats to ferry 2,000 liters of purified water across riverways to affected households. The agency also is operating three water ambulances to transfer injured patients to health facilities. Save the Children, which assisted in the large-scale evacuation of families in the region, is coordinating with local authorities. The agency has dispatched 19 teams to assist in relief efforts. Prior to the storm, the agency deployed equipment, including zodiac rescue boats, to the impact area, and mobilized food and water-purification resources. Click here to donate
Catholic Relief Services
CRS Bangladesh staff and our local Caritas partners are distributing relief supplies to families who were forced to take refuge from Cyclone Sidr. Click here to donate
Bangladesh Embassy Accepting Donations to the Chief Advisor's Relief and Welfare Fund
Those who are interested in going through government channels, can donate to the Bangladesh Chief Advisors' Relief and Welfare Fund. You can find the guidelines in the Bangladesh Embassy (Washington DC) page. Click here to donate
Global Works Foundation
GlobalWorks Foundation will also grant a portion of the funding to organizations which will be working over the coming months to relocate citizens from the low-lying areas of the Ganges River Delta which are prone to frequent flooding. 100% of your donations will be granted to our local partners in Bangladesh and international organizations which are helping with the recovery efforts. Mail donations to:
Shamarukh Mohiuddin
GlobalWorks Foundation
1100 15th Street, NW, Suite 750 , Washington, DC 20005
Tel: (202) 879 5829
Email: smohiuddin@globalworksfoundation.org
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International
Drishtipat
Drishtipat is a non-profit, non-partisan volunteer organization, composed of students and young professionals worldwide, committed to safeguarding human rights in Bangladesh through action-oriented projects that provide direct assistance to those individuals whose voices remain unheard today. Funds collected are going to be disbursed through credible partner organizations in Bangladesh. Funds will be collected in two phases. During the first phase, funds will be sent to affected areas immediately to provide for imminent needs of the survivors. The second phase will consist of rebuilding homes and reviving livelihoods. Click here to donate
Islamic Relief Services
Islamic Relief (IR) distributed emergency food parcels to around 11,000 people across northern and central Bangladesh. Working in partnership with the UN World Food Program and UNICEF, IR distributed rice and high-energy biscuits to around 39,000 people. IR has begun a €500,000 emergency relief program in partnership with European Union's Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO). The six-month program will benefit over 70,000 people across the districts of Dhaka, Faridpur, Sirajganj, Manikganj, Jamalpur and Madaripur. IR will distribute food, paddy and vegetable seeds, and shelter materials for people to construct semi-permanent shelters. Click here to donate
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
IFRC is distributing water purification tablets, dry food, medicine and relief kits in affected areas. Click here to donate
World Food Program
As the extent of the destruction wreaked by Cyclone Sidr becomes clearer, WFP's emergency response gathers pace. Five emergency assessment teams are in the field while high-energy biscuits are being delivered to survivors. Click here to donate
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Other
Irish Red Cross
An appeal for donation to help the victims of the Bangladesh cyclone was launched by the Irish Red Cross which also announced that it was sending an initial 20,000 Euros to help the people suffering as a result of the disaster. Click here to donate
Concern
Concern now has a relief programme underway to the value of €600,000 benefiting 23,000 families. Dry food, temporary shelter and drinking water will be urgently needed for people displaced in the aftermath of the cyclone. In the run up to the hurricane Concern's partner organisations in the coastal belt took measures alongside local government, Red Cross and Red Crescent to issue community warnings and evacuate people in vulnerable areas to shelter in cyclone shelters. These early warning systems have been credited with saving many lives. Click here to donate
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