Gujarat Rehabilitation Efforts by TRU

The devastating earthquake in Gujarat on January this year has left our
brethrens struggling to rebuild their lives in the aftermath. AID
launched a disaster relief fund, which was generously contributed to by
the AID donors nationwide in US.
AID approved funds to TRU to provide rehabilitation efforts in two
districts of Gujarat.

TRU (The Trust for Reaching the Un-reached), an NGO based in India,
through its work, has built expertise in providing health care
sustenance in different parts Vadodora.  After the earthquake, TRU moved
to provide immediate relief measures to Gujarat and continues to build
long-term rehabilitation efforts in Gujarat.

TRU has launched the following health and rehabilitation efforts in
three areas in Gujarat, Khadir(Bhachau Tulika), Balasar(Rapar Tulika)
and Maliya(in North Rajkot district) :

- Re-instituting primary health work and organize the secondary health
care in the above areas over a period of next one year.
- Approach to healthy living - consistent health education and
prevention of diseases,
- Curative help for primary health problems, establishing referral
links.
- Help restart the government health services.
- Provide short-term and long-term shelters for the displaced in the
region.

Ravishankar Arunachalam, AID volunteer from Austin has worked with TRU
for the past few months to review and provide inputs to the project.
Ravi also worked with AID San Diego for the approval of the project as
per the the policies of AID. Gautham Desai performed on-site visits to
TRU on his last visit to India. Harish Sharma has worked with other
community organizations in Austin(NAAO) to provide financial support to
the project beyond the AID contributions. AID Austin and AID San Diego
have sanctioned $15,000 towards the project. NAAO has contributed
$16,500 towards the project.

For more information on the projects, please visit
http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~valluri/donate/proj.html