Update of relief activities of AMI on 7th and 8th August 2010

Management Committee of AMI had a meeting on the first day and set up three teams by delegating the responsibilities. One team led by Mr. Anwar Khan (Anu) and Mr. Arshad Ahmad for Rescue works and they are entirely responsible for rescue works, they will report back to Management Committee.  If the rescue team needs any support they can discuss with the Management Committee(MC).  Second team is led by Mr. A Rehman Bhat and Parveez Ahmad, the team will entirely be responsible for relief works, and they are also suppose to report back to MC, if they also need any support they will discuss with MC.

On the basis of the rapid assessment done in Choglamsar village the relief and rescue teams of AMI, Leh went to the village and did rescue works by cleaning the silt from the damaged houses and irrigation channels to rescue the missing child. After doing these works by more than 80 people in seven places the missing child body was not found. The houses filled with silt were all cleared and their materials were brought out and handed over to the owner of the house safely. In the meantime villagers from the upper side of Choglamsar requested the management committee for doing rescue works there as well as there are huge damages in that side of the village. A plan was again discussed and a team was sorted out for rescue works on 9^th August 2010.

Relief materials distributions were done in the following villages on 7^th August 2010:

SN	Items	Choglamsar	Rock near to ITBP	Rock near Saboo	New Bus Stand	Phiyang
1	Biscuits packets	73 boxes	119 boxes	67 Boxes	35 Boxes	43 boxes
2	Juice	18 boxes	38 Boxes	18 Boxes	12 Boxes	24 Boxes
3	Drinking water bottle	123 boxes	232 boxes	180 Boxes	73 Boxes	78 Boxes
4	Candies	3 boxes	4 Boxes	1 Box	1 Box	1 Box
5	Rice	400 Kgs	500 Kgs	30 Kgs	Nil	Nil
6	Vegetable oil	20 liters	35 Liters	10 Liters	Nil	10 Liters
7	Salt packets	6 Kgs	5 Kgs	Nil	Nil	Nil

   

Management committee of relief at Leh collected lots of clothes, blankets, first aid kits and food stuff as listed below these were sorted out and stocked properly by the team and volunteers.  Some food and other materials as demanded by the rescue and relief teams were distributed in the above villages. Management committee received donations of Rs. 1.76 Lacs  on 8^th August 2010 from the general public and foreign tourists. Representatives of the MC visited villages to see the condition and activities of rescue and relief teams, they also visited to DDC office to give feedback about the AMI relief activities and discussed about the present situation. DDC and their team requested AMI if they can do something to stop labourers waiting at the airport to go back to their homes in view of the fake announcement for free flights. The District Magistrate and MC team visited the site of airport but was not able to convince the huge croed gathered there. MC team also visited Mahabodhi centre as villagers from Choglamsar and Zanak Mane are camping there, and some basic items were distributed to them as mentioned below:

Representatives of villages Phiyang, Saboo and Mohlla Skampari requested MC of AMI, Leh for support and provision of relief for them as well, some materials as mentioned above have been provided in Saboo and Phiyang. For Mohlla Skampari as this was allotted to Save The Children by DDC, Leh to do relief work Vice President of AMI youth wing went to discuss with representative of SC to avoid any duplicity and if he need any help to administer relief work in this Mohlla.

Relief materials distribution was done in the following villages on 8^th August 2010:

SN	Items	Choglamsar	Mhabudhi	Skampari	Saboo	Phiyang
1	Blankets	35 Nos	20 Nos	3 Nos
2	Biscuits	3 boxes	20 boxes	17 packets	4 boxes	3 boxes
3	Drinking water bottle		1 box
4	Shoes	19 pairs				2 pairs
5	Rice			9 Kgs		20 Kgs
6	Vegetable oil/ Dalda			7 litres		2 tin
7	Salt packets			1 packet		2 packets
8	Tea leaves (Cha Pati)					4 packets
9	Sleeping begs	1 No		1 No
10	Sorts of medicines				1 packet
11	Tooth brush/paste	6/3	10
12	Shawls	6 Nos
13	Sorts of clothes	3 bundles	9 bundles	1 bundle	1 bundle	6 bundles
14	Cold drink				7 bot/ 6 box
15	Milk packets			5 packets		5 packets
16	Sorts of soaps			6 Nos		8 Nos
17	Stationery  / toys		2 packets
18	Carpets			1 No
19	Fine atta			10 kg		10 kg
20	Match boxes			1 box

Choglamsar