Needs in the area of Kotauratla Village:

1. Immediate restoration of livelihoods(relief- vessels & Sleeping materials& Clothes )
2. Support of Tiles and palm leaves to repair and rebuild &construction of the houses;
2. Confidence building
3. Support to children needs- Fruit bearing saplings to children
4. Cleaning of water wells/ sanitation 5. Support to land development – Agriculture crops –vegetable and Paddy seed
6. Advocacy issues for demanding right compensation
7. Disaster preparedness for coping up and capacity building of the community
8. Disaster relief fund

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION AND INVOLVEMENT

Programme Process and implementation: The Project began its work on 20th October 2014 with a base line survey and Micro-plan, started organising community meeting and sharing with community regarding the relief activity. The people and children joined in the meetings, discussions, identifying the victims & loss, planning the activities. The Crisis Phase activities were initiated through Village Relief Committee in the village. The Community was totally involved in planning and implementation of the relief. Training was imparted to selected people like members of Peoples organization, SHGs and child network in promotion of relief activities like organizing the people for food for work programme like road repair, Bore well canal cleaning, House repair, drain cleaning, sanitation, village cleaning and Drinking water well chlorination. Community participation in planning became a crucial part in this relief programme. One of the very important strategies was taken up for relief activity to initiate a process of unfolding peoples own Capabilities and skills and took immediate action to overcome from the Crisis.

Location and Area of Operation

Among the districts which are affected by the HUDHUD cyclone, it is observed from the field survey done by CeFHA that 24 villages are affected in kotauratla Mandal in Visakhapatnam. CeFHA is planning to take up relief & Rehabilitation work in 24 villages, those who are worst hit by Cyclone, children and women are more affected and where CeFHA is already working.

CeFHA carried out its humanitarian assistance operations in 24 Villages of Kotauratla Mandal Visakhapatnam District only. In one district, from one Mandal of 24 villages 1441 families will be covered. The details are given below:

Targeted Beneficiaries

The targeted Beneficiaries are the 1441 Dalit and Tribal families of the 24 villages of Kotauratla and these families will be covered by KNH response. Most of these communities are depend upon a small Piece of land, agriculture labour and landless people.

Criteria for Selection

The affected 1441 families and 350 farmers were chosen basing on the damages occurred to the families. Lists of affected families from respective villages were collected by a team of people, along with Green Ambassadors, SHG members and dalit network members representing by CeFHA.

The CeFHA strongly feels that the main emphasis of the response should be to restore the livelihood of the affected communities by the Cyclone disaster. The proposed programme includes only the neediest support to restore the livelihood of the people.

A. Crisis Phase:

1. Utensils Assistance to Women (3 No. Each)
822 women were supported with a set of 3 cooking vessels with lids.
2. Sleeping Material for Childrens (2 No. Each)
The staff organised meeting in the village and surveyed the children who are listed out the children whose sleeping materials are washed away in the flood. The sleeping material kits were provided to the 897 children through the Community and Green Ambassadors children Network.
3. First Health Camps organised-
The Health coordinators of CeFHA immediately moved to the village and camped for 4 days and imparted the Health Education on Sanitation and Cleaning of the houses , villages , Dead animals, drainages, canals , roads, bushes and cleaning of the Drinking water Well in the Village. They educated the villagers to boil the water and drink. They also demonstrated the ORS solution in the village for emergency cases in the village. Lot of Mosquitoes is surrounded by the villages and asks them to clean the Village.
Totally 128 screened and 302 patients were treated for Diahorrea, dysentery, stomach pain, fever, Malaria, joint pain, cold & Cough; body pain and Gastric problems. The whole area was bleached with bleaching powder to avoid the diseases. In the second camp ,Totally 80 children and 96 adults were treated.128 people screened.
B. Post Crisis Phase
350 farmers were identified , whose crop was lost and the total crop was damaged due to HUD HUD cyclone , as the Rabi crop season already gone the seed will be supported in the month of April to continue the crop of Kharif in May- June . The below seeds will be supported to the 350 farmers in the month of April.
Vegetable & Pulses& millet & Paddy Seeds Support:
80 farmers were supported with 25 kg of vegetable seed to develop 40 acres of land.
50 farmers were supported with 125 kg of pulses seed to develop 25 acres of land.
160 farmers were supported with 800 kg of millets seed to develop 80 acres of land.
60 farmers were supported with 300 kg of paddy seed to develop 24 acres of land.
897 green Ambassadors children / Families were supported with 3 fruit bearing plants (Mango, Pomegranate& Chickoo) totall 2691 plants to plant at the back yard of the house
577 families supported with each family 30 cashew plants, for each family for the economic support.17310 plants are planted in the area.
Livelihood Assistance to Women & PWD SHG Members
The members of the SHGs initiated various income generation activities like Petty shops-32, Tea shops-5, Fruit business-13, Vegetable business- 7, Tailoring units-2, Goat rearing-3, Dry Fish business-1, Palm leaf crafts-2, Lime butties- 3, Rope making-2, Brooms- 2, Milk business-2 and Buffallo business- 2 in the villages and Kotauratla Mandal. Those shops/small sheds are flown/ damaged their roofs and the business materials are all lost and damaged. 79 women and PWD from 62 groups of 24 villages are identified and lost their livelihoods. These women and PWD enterprenuers are assisted with each Rs.5000/- as livelihood support to initiate the business again to generate income for their families and self sufficient.
1 day Capacity Building Activity Workshop for 60 Persons
CeFHA invited a team from Visakhapatnam for a day to train the villagers on disaster preparedness and organized twice for one day workshop on Disaster Preparedness and Management at CeFHA Field Office, covering 60 persons in the work shop. Mr. Daniel, Dr.Sujatha and Mr D’Silva attended the work shop.
The team covered the below topics:
Disaster Recovery and Rehabilitation: The team shared the process to be undertaken by a disaster-affected community to fully restore itself to pre- disaster level of functioning
• Food distribution to feed insecure families during the Crisis period
• Food for work programme (community based)
• Reconstructing dwellings with resistant or easily rebuilt materials following a cyclone/flood
• Restoring community development activities
• Tracing family members separated in a flood or conflict emergency
• Establishing community household granaries
• Providing employment skills to the effected families
Disaster Prevention: The team explained the activities designed to provide permanent protection from disasters – or reduce the intensity/ frequency of a hazardous event through health assistance.
Disaster Mitigation : The team shared the measures taken in advance of a disaster aimed at reducing the impact on society and the Environment through protecting deep wells, planting trees, food for work, Community granaries and building up earth mounds on which to raise houses above a flood level.
Disaster Preparedness: The team trained the community, the ability to predict, respond to and cope with the effect of a flood disaster
• to identify the components of disaster preparedness planning
•to describe the role of vulnerability and risk assessment as a prerequisite to disaster preparedness
Disaster Relief: The team trained the people on those extraordinary measures required in search and rescue of survivors, as well as to meet basic needs for shelter, water, food and health care like
• Damage assessment after a violent wind & storm has occurred
• Food/Material distribution

Capacity Building of the communities:

As the community is in distress and lost confidence on livelihood in the beginning, CeFHA started interacting with community, children and SHGs to build rapport and confidence by giving moral support, visiting houses and had interaction with families, children and community.Under this programme CeFHA organised various Capacity Building Trainings i.e. one day training programmes on unity, collective action and sharing under Food for Work Programme& Disaster preparedness. CeFHA also made an attempt to form the Village Relief Committees in each village and trained them for identifying the needy area under Food for Work Programme like house repairs, Canal, Drinking water well chlorination and road repairs, planning, and implementation of the proposed works.
They also discussed to repair the damaged houses and Drain to prevent further flow of water through the village and divert the canal to the riverside. They are planned to work unitedly in all the works of proposed support from KNH and share the resources (Food materials) equally.
During the relief period the community took a strategy to work unitedly and made joint efforts in rebuilding their respective Villages. During this period the Communities are capacitated with the Construction of the Thatched and tiled houses jointly, ordering of Agricultural implements. The People from all the villages participated in planning, implementation, documenting in the village record and monitoring.