Thursday, 28 November 2013

PMF Supported Uttarakhand Flood affected Families..

     Uttarakhand Flood affected families   

Parwaaz Muliti Foundation in association with Adfactors PR and Uttranchal Mahasangh, distributed financial aid to 68 flood affected families in Rudra Prayag and Srinagar in mid of July 2013.  The team consisting Shri Vikas Joshi, MD, Parwaaz Mulitifoundation Thane and Shri Aryan Rana, Chief Operating Officer, Parwaaz Mulitfoundation, Mrs Anandi Gairola, President, Uttranachal Mahasangh Mumbai,  Shri Suresh Lohani, Executive President of Uttranachal Mahasangh Mumbai,  personally visited the affected families in their houses, spent time with them and listened to their grievances.  



Determined to help the flood victims in Uttrakhand, Parwaaz Mulitfoundation (which was founded in 2009) team led by Aryan Rana of Adfactors PR initiated a campaign to raise funds for the relief and rehabilitation of the affected families in the region.  The team members, wrote mails and went door- to- door in Thane and Mumbai, asking for funds from potential donors. 

The team then made contact with agencies working on the rehabilitation of the victims and set off to Uttarakhand in third week of July to distribute the aid amongst the flood affected families in the Rudra Prayag area, Tilwada, and Shrinagar districts of Uttarakhand. 


Their collective efforts resulted in a collection of Rs.1.8 lakh. This included individual contributions by employees of Adfactors PR and including donations ranging from Rs.20 to 5.000. Parwaaz Multi Foundation then tied up with the Uttaranchal Mahasangh, Mumbai which had collected Rs.3 lakh.

The team handed over the relief fund to around 68 families.  This money helped the families buy essential commodities such as provisions, clothes, blankets, utensils, tents, nets, basic medicines, stoves, fuel, etc.
Paper cutting of news published in Amar Ujala
  Our support to Flood affected families was appreciated and published in one of the renowned newspaper of North India.