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Cyclone Fani: Volunteers Coordinate Efforts To Send Relief Materials For Puri, Here’s How You Can Help
Devastation left behind by Cyclone Fani in Puri (Pic via Twitter)
Citizens throughout India have begun coordinating efforts to ensure relief materials is dispatched to various areas affected by the devastating Cyclone Fani in and around Puri.
In you are a resident of either Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Mumbai, here’s how you can help the affected residents.
The relief materials which you can chiefly donate to make a big difference in the efforts to help the victims recover from the devastating cyclone are:
- Packed Drinking Water
- Small solar lights/lamps
- Dry food items like biscuits, rusk, poha and noodles
- Essential medicines like paracetamol, anti-septic liquid/cream and band aid
- Hygiene items like soap, toothpastes, sanitary napkins, cleaning materials
- Insect repellents
- Candles, matchboxes
- Clothes for all ages
- Tarpaulin
The volunteers have established collection points where the aforementioned materials can be dropped. Before taking the materials to the drop-off points please make sure that they are neatly packed in bags or boxes and are properly marked.
Bengaluru
Eat Street, 900, 80 feet road, opposite Indian Oil petrol pump, Koramangala 6th Block Near Sony World Signal
Contact number: 76193-07429
Hyderabad
Creative Sneha Apartment, Pearl Village Road, Masjid Banda, CMC Enclave, Kondapur
Contact number: 63098-79799
Mumbai
You can drop a message to Vishakha Joshi on Twitter to get more information about how to send relief materials. She then would dispatch them to Puri by this Wednesday or Thursday.
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