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We lost everything in the flood: help the Old Town settlement start over
The flood damaged 69 homes in the Old Town settlement. We're raising funds for repairs, supplies and temporary shelter.
🇮🇳 West Bengal, India940 views
The flood hit the Old Town settlement on 13 January. My home was one of 69 damaged, and 13 families are still in temporary shelter at the community hall.
The first few days we shared what little we had. Now the cleanup has started, but we've no money for materials and winter or the rainy season is coming.
Schools in the area have been closed, and the clinic lost its cold storage for vaccines. We're a small community of working families who have never asked for help before.
We have formed a volunteer committee, and I'm the treasurer, so I'll post receipts for everything we buy.
Funds go to building materials, water purification supplies, bedding, and food for families still in shelters.
Where the $450 goes:
• Clean water and purification supplies: $180
• Bedding, blankets and mattresses: $145
• Tools and labor for repairs: $125
You're what makes this possible, and I'll never forget it.
- Madhuri
Updates from Madhuri
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- Maria Magdalena Szewczyk 🇵🇱 · $100
“Blessings. Shared with friends too. - Gliwice”
- Sofía D. Mendoza 🇺🇸 · $51
“Hope this covers a bit of it. - Akron”
- Beth Bates 🇬🇧 · $50
- Zakaria Amir Sabbagh 🇪🇬 · $25
“Wishing you the best. Gave what I could this week. - Heliopolis”
- Sohel Rubel Zaman 🇧🇩 · $20.50
- Halyna Natalia Polishchuk 🇺🇦 · $20
“Praying for you. Saw your post and had to give. - Kyiv”
- Anonymous 🇧🇩 · $20
“Blessings. From Jessore with love.”
- Vera Anastasia Kiselev 🇮🇹 · $13
- Roman Netsanet Abate 🇪🇹 · $10
“Best of luck. Thought of Madhuri all day after reading this. - Adama”
- Nikolai Vladimir Nikitin 🇷🇺 · $10
- Amelia R. Duncan 🇺🇸 · $5
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Sending love. Shared this with my family. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Thinking of Kolkata.