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The society has eighty nos. Social Emergency Response Volunteers (SERV) and all are trained on First Aid and Disaster Management and with their cooperation we have organized WASH Programme in the various schools of the District, Mock Drill on First Aid and Disaster Management etc. in collaboration with the State Branch. In the last three years the Branch has successfully conducted the following activities of SERV Programme :
Sl. No. | Name of Activity | No of Program conducted | No of Participants |
01 | Awareness Programme on WASH | 12 Nos. | 478 |
02 | Outreach Activity on Linkage of Govt. Schemes | 02 Nos. | 66 |
03. | Orientation Programme on SERV | 02 Nos. | 69 |
04. | Observance of Disaster Risk Reduction Day | 03 Nos. | 148 |
05. | Refresher Training of Volunteers | 03 Nos. | 71 |
06. | Vulnerability Capacity Assessment Activity | 06 Nos. | 255 |
07. | Mock Drill Activity | 12 Nos. | 600 (Appox) |
In the year 2019 Indian Red Cross Society, Assam State Branch, has launched the “Partners for Resilience (PfR) Program” with support from Indian Red Cross, National Headquarter & International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent (IFRC) in the three districts of the state namely Karimganj, Kamrup & Karbi Anglong. The PfR program is based on Integrated Risk Management,
Ecosystem Management and Climate change Adoption. PfR uses the approach to build local resilience through community based disaster risk reduction interventions that addresses weather and climate-change-shocks and ecological degradation. The IRCS, Karimganj District Branch is proud that our district has been selected for implementation of the PfR programme as a pilot manner & the management of the Branch has selected a Goan Panchayet “Malua-Srigouri” for implementation of this pilot project and according to the discussion with the Panchayet Body of Malua-Srigouri G.P. the following three revenue villages have been selected for implementation of this project.
The field activities on Hazard Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (HVCA) of the PfR Programme has completed on 15th March’2019. During the field activities the volunteers of Indian Red Cross Society (Karimganj, Karbi Anglong, Kamrup district & State H.Q.) collected data and assessed socio-economic status, hazard & vulnerability through Public Meetings with villagers, Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRI), Inter-Personal Communication (IPC) etc. with the help of PRI members of the concerned villages and we found that the cooperation & participation of villagers specially women & aged persons was excellent.
NATIONAL SCHOOL SAFETY PROGRAMME :
Between the State Disaster Management Authority, Govt. of Assam & Indian Red Cross Society, Assam State Branch a MoU was signed for conducting the First Aid and Life saving Skills Training programme for school teachers in the different educational blocks of Assam. Accordingly the state branch gave responsibilities to our district branch to cover all the three districts of Barak Valley. 4nos. of Master Trainees from our Branch has engaged in these programmes as Resource Persons. 17 nos. of the training programmes throughout the Barak Valley were completed. In addition to that our branch has organized two nos. of District Level Training Prgorammes of School Focal Point Teachers & Head of Institutions for preparation of School Disaster Management Plan in collaboration with District Disaster Management Authority, Karimganj.
RELIEF ACTIVITY :
Sl. No. | Date of distribution | Place of distribution | No. of family package distributed |
01. | 08-10-2017 | Govt. H.S. School, Karimganj | 531 |
02. | 09-10-2017 | Basail market shed, Badarpur | 183 |
03. | 10-10-2017 | Nilambazar Police Station | 405 |
04. | 11-10-2017 | Patharkandi Rabindra Bhawan | 207 |
05. | 12-07-2017 | Suprakandi Swarupananda Institute | 174 |
VISIT OF REPRESENTATIVE FROM IFRC, NEW DELHI & HONGKONG RED CROSS :
On 14th November’2019, the representative from International Federation of Red Cross, New Delhi Smt. Minu Bali & representative from Hongkong Red Cross Smt. Lalita Gurung along with Sri Laba Sharma & Sri Raj Sharma, State Branch visited our society.
The main objective of monitoring visit was to enhance understanding of the status for implementation of Social Emergency Response Volunteers Programme & strengthen the relationship among Hongkong Red Cross and IRCS & IFRC.
During their monitoring visit the following activities were conducted by our branch :
After completion of their monitoring visit they shared their views with the Hony. Secretary & Coordinator of our branch at Hotel Nakshatra. Details of their observation and feedback are as follows :