Appeal Target : US$ 156,019
Dear Friends,

The flood of July 1997 caused by incessant downpour and onrush of water from Assam, India devastated almost one fourth of the country. Further catastrophies in the form of land/mudslides, a tornado and two mild tremors added to the misery and suffering of the people.

Seventy - seven people were reported dead and many missing. At least 300,000 acres of crops were destroyed, more than 100,000 homes were washed away and a million people were marooned for days as towns and villages were innundated under several feet of swirling waters. Educational institutions, bridges, roads and other infrastructure were severely damaged and destroyed. More than 3.5 million people were affected in 22 districts of north-eastern and south-eastern parts of Bangladesh.

As road, train and air communications between the capital and several parts of the country were disrupted, the government called out the armed forces in aid of the civil administration to undertake emergency rescue and relief operations in the affected areas.

The Rapid Response Funds sent by the Coordinating Office enabled ACT members, Social Health and Education Development (SHED) Board and Bangladesh Auxiliary Services for Social Advancement (BASSA) to respond to some of the immediate needs of the flood affected people. The two ACT members and KOINONIA, a third member have since requested additional support to complete the relief and rehabilitation efforts initiated in August, details of which are contained in the following pages.

Please kindly send your contributions to the ACT bank account.

For further information, please contact:

ACT Co-ordinator, Miriam Lutz (phone 41 22 791 6032 or mobile phone 41 89 203 6055)

or

ACT Appeals Officer, Neville Pradhan, (phone +41 22 791 60 35)

ACT Web Site Address: http://www.wcc-coe.org/act/

We thank you in advance for your support.

Rev. Myra Blyth Miriam Lutz Rev. Rudolf Hinz
Director ACT Co-ordinator Director
WCC/Unit IV LWF/World Service

Ecumenical Centre, 150 route de Ferney , P.O. Box 2100, 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland
Phone: ++41 22 791 6033 Fax: ++41 22 791 6506 E-mail: act@wcc-coe.org Telex: 415 730OIK CH

General Note on Coordination: The three ACT members - SHED, BASSA & KOINONIA are coordinating the program among themselves for purposes of information sharing as well as to avoid duplication. CCDB as the ACT liaison agency for Bangladesh is being kept informed. Furthermore, as a rule all such activities are also coordinated with and through the local government offices and the NGO Bureau of Bangladesh.

ACT/Social Health Education Development (SHED) Board:

SHED is the service arm of the Bangladesh Baptist Sangha (BBS) which is a member-body of the National Council of Churches in Bangladesh (NCCB).

In response to SHED’s request for assistance to implement an emergency flood relief & rehabilitation program, the Coordinating Office sent USD 25,000 from its Rapid Response Fund for immediate emergency relief.

The program benefitted 13,500 persons (2,200 families) in Kotwali Thana of Bandarban district, 363 km from the capital city of Dhaka. While 1,700 families received mosquito nets as protection against malaria, which assumes epidemic proportions during times of such disasters, 500 families who lost their houses were given assistanceto rebuild homes.

Stated Needs: In view of the large scale damage caused by the floods, ACT/SHED requests additional support to conclude the relief & rehabilitation operations initiated in August. The current phase will be implemented in 79 villages of 6 districts benefitting nearly 13,000 flood affected families as follows:

Particulars Quantity

Low Cost Houses 85 families
House Repairing Assistance 3,000 families
Schools & Staff Quarters 6 nos.
Supply of Mosquito Nets 1,500 families
Cash for Work 8,250 person days.

The House assistance program will target the most vulnerable and poor families. These beneficiary families will contribute approximately USD 45 per family by way of labour in the form of earth cutting and providing bamboo platforms for the floors.

The Cash for Work program will be used to raise the compounds of Educational Institutions affected by the floods as well as to repair community roads. The program will create temporary employment for jobless people from vulnerable families who otherwise would have no other avenues of income.

Implementation Period: The program is expected to be completed within 6 months of commencement.

Procurement: All materials will be procured locally.

ACT/SHED BUDGET

Description	Type of Unit	No of Unit	Cost/Unit	Value BDT	ValueUSD
Low cost houses - 85 families:
Roofing - CI sheets	nos	1,360	275	374,000	8,500
Roofing poles-bamboo	nos	850	50	42,500	966
Roofing trusses-wooden	nos	85	2,250	191,250	4,347
Tarza for walls	nos	4,250	30	127,500	2,898
Doors	nos	85	1,200	102,000	2,318
Tarza windows	nos	85	100	8,500	193
Nails etc.	-	85	250	21,250	483
Labour cost	-	85	1,500	127,500	2,898
Transportation costs		-	-	25,500	580
Sub-Total				1,020,000	23,183
House repair assistance -Type I	fam.	3,000	200	600,000	13,636
House repair assistance -Type II	fam.	500	1,000	500,000	11,364
Schools & staff quarters repair	nos	6	53,333	320,000	7,273
Mosquito nets	nos	3,200	200	640,000	14,545
Cash for work	person days	8,250	40	330,000	7,500
Operational costs incl. Monit.				632,571	14,377
Total				4,042,571	91,879

Total requested by ACT/SHED - USD 91,879

NOTE: Exchange rate for all three budgets are calculated at USD 1= BDT 44

ACT/KOINONIA:

Koinonia is the service organ of the National Christian Fellowship of Bangladesh (NCFB). NCFB is an ecumenical organization of 16 Member Denominations, 16 Associate Para-Church members and 7 Fraternal Mission Societies.

The Lama area in Bandarban district experienced severe flooding as a result of which many people lost their houses and other property. ACT/KOINONIA therefore proposes to assist 77 poor Muslim families to rebuild their houses which were almost totally destroyed by the recent flood.

Stated Needs: In view of the prevailing monsoon the most urgent need is for people to have a roof over their heads. Therefore each of the 77 families will receive house building materials consisting of Corrugated Iron sheets, Ridging and Taka 500 as cash grant. The beneficiaries will contribute the rest of the building materials as well as the labour for construction.

Implementation Period: The project for which permission has already been received from the NGO Affairs Bureau will be completed within three months of commencement .

Procurement: ACT/KOINONIA will purchase the CI Sheets and Ridging from Chittagong (Division town) on the basis of quotations from wholesale traders.

Additional Note on Coordination: The Association of Baptist (ABWE) and the Bangladesh Tribal Association of Baptist Churches will coordinate and implement the activities on the ground.

ACT/KOINONIA BUDGET

Description	Type ofunits	No. of Unit	Cost/unit	ValueBDT	ValueUSD
Low cost houses -77 families :
CI Sheet	nos	1078	280	301,840	6,860
Ridging	nos	231	75	173,25	394
Cash grant	fam.	77	500	38,500	875
Oper. Costs (Transport, communications, staff, etc.)				21,604	491
Admin. costs (5%)				19,976	454
Total				399,245	9,074

Total requested by ACT/KOINONIA - USD 9,074

ACT/Bangladesh Auxiliary Services for Social Advancement (BASSA):

BASSA a local Christian humanitarian organization established in 1990 has been actively involved in relief operations, the most recent being the Bangladesh cyclone - ASBD71. As in the case of SHED, the ACT Coordinating Office also responded with Rapid Response Fund (RRF) of USD 15,000 to BASSA’s request for emergency assistance. In view of the urgent needs of a large number of flood affected families, BASSA supplemented the RRF with USD 21,097 from its ongoing development activities. Consequently 1,500 families in 36 villages of Chakoria Thana in Cox’s Bazar district were assisted with emergency distributions of food, clothing, medicines including oral re-hydration solution and mosquito nets.
Stated Needs: Based on a survey and needs assessment, ACT/BASSA proposes to help rehabilitate 800 poor families whose houses were severely damaged by the sudden flooding in Chakoria Thana. These 800 families will receive cash grants of Taka 1,000 (approximately USD 22) each as house repair costs.

Number and type of Beneficiaries targeted: First priority will be given to widows, divorced women, orphans and old people while second priority will be accorded to other poor segments according to the extent of damage to their houses.

Implementation Period: The program is expected to be completed within one month of the starting date.
BASSA field staff will finalize lists of beneficiaries according to the criteria enumerated and thereafter distribute the cash grants to the beneficiaries with the assistance of government authorities and local leaders. A final report together with audited statement of accounts as well as an evaluation report will be sent to the ACT Office upon the completion of the program.

ACT/BASSA BUDGET

Description	Type of Unit	No. of Unit	Cost/Unit	Value BDT	ValueUSD
Rice	kg	22,500	17.70	398,250	9,051
Lentils	kg	4,500	46.80	210,600	4,786
Potatoes	kg	6,750	9.75	65,812	1,496
Saree	nos	1,500	138	207,000	4,705
Lungi	nos	1,500	105	157,500	3,580
Mosquito Nets	nos	1,000	235	235,000	5,341
Medicines, ORS, water purify.	lump sum			82,000	1,864
Transport and Travel	lump sum			87,520	1,989
Volunteer remuneration	lump sum			63,000	1,432
House repair	family	800	1,000	800,000	18,182
BASSA Administration cost(5%)				116,178	2,640
Total				2,422,860	55,066

Total requested by ACT/BASSA -USD 55,066

ACT Co-ordinating Office

APPEAL FACT SHEET

Appeal Number: ASBD72

Appeal Name: Bangladesh Flood Relief & Rehabilitation Appeal

Date Issued: 30 September 1997

Project Completion Date: 31 March 1998

Project Description: Three ACT members in Bangladesh, SHED, KOINONIA and BASSA propose to provide relief and rehabilitation assistance to flood affected families in their respective operational areas. The ACT members request is aimed at successful completion of the Emergency Flood Relief program initiated with RRF assistance from the ACT Co-ordinating Office in July 1997, immediately after the floods.

Implementing Activity Appeal Target

Partner Description (USD)

ACT/SHED Relief and rehabilitation USD 91,879
ACT/KOINONIA House repair assistance USD 9,074
ACT/BASSA Relief and rehabilitation USD 55,066

TOTAL APPEAL TARGET: USD 156,019

Pledges can be communicated to ACT by using the Appeal Pledge Form

ACT - Action by Churches Together
Account Number: 102539/0.01.61
Banque Edouard Constant
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SWITZERLAND

Action by Churches Together (ACT) is a worldwide network of Churches and their related agencies meeting human needs through a co-ordinated emergency response and a common identity. The ACT network is organizationally based within the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and the World Council of Churches (WCC) and is a co-ordinating rather than an operational office.

Ecumenical Centre, 150 route de Ferney , P.O. Box 2100, 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland
Phone: ++41 22 791 6033 Fax: ++41 22 791 6506 E-mail: act@wcc-coe.org Telex: 415 730 OIK CH

Co-ordinating Office

APPEAL PLEDGE FORM
(Please fax to the ACT Co-ordinating Office - Fax:41 22 791 6506)

Appeal Name: Bangladesh Flood Relief & Rehabilitation Appeal

Appeal Number: ASBD72

Appeal Target: 156,019 USD Project Completion Date: March 1998

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