Ration Kits
Rice, dal, atta, oil and spices — a month of meals for a household that has run out of options.
₹1,000 feeds a family of five for one month.
Urgent
Emergency Relief
When the water rises, the first seventy-two hours decide the next six months
The need
India's disasters are seasonal and predictable in kind, if not in place. The monsoon will flood somewhere; a cyclone will make landfall.
What is not inevitable is the aftermath. A household that receives food, water and shelter in the first week usually recovers. One that does not often sells land, or sends a child to work.
What we do
We pre-position stock before the season rather than raising funds after the photographs. That is the whole difference between relief and a response.
Kits carry food, drinking water, a tarpaulin, basic medicine and hygiene supplies — enough for a household of five for two weeks.
What it funds
What your ₹2,500 really does
2 weeks
Dry rations
40 L
Drinking water
1
Tarpaulin shelter
1
Hygiene kit
1 set
Basic medicines
How you can help
What each amount does
- ₹1,000 Drinking water and dry rations for one household for a week Give ₹1,000
- ₹2,500 A complete emergency kit for one displaced household Give ₹2,500
- ₹5,000 Two households sheltered and fed for two weeks Give ₹5,000
- ₹11,000 Tarpaulin shelter and supplies for four households Give ₹11,000
- ₹21,000 A boat load of relief into a cut-off village Give ₹21,000
- ₹51,000 Pre-positioned stock for a district before monsoon Give ₹51,000
Where it goes
Districts we deliver this in
- Assam — Barpeta, Dhubri
- Bihar — Katihar
- Kerala — Wayanad
Giving with amanah
Your donation is an amanah — a trust held on your behalf, and on behalf of the household that receives it. We treat it as money that is not ours, because it is not.
That means buying at market rates and keeping the quotes, signing every handover against a register, and publishing accounts that an auditor has seen before you have.
Our promise to you
We will tell you what your donation funded, including when it did not go to plan. We will not publish a figure we cannot evidence — you will find outstanding markers on this site rather than estimates.
And we will never use a photograph of someone in distress to raise money from you.
Questions
Before you give
Funds go to pre-positioning stock and maintaining response capacity, which is what makes a seventy-two-hour response possible at all.
Not automatically. Emergency relief reaches households regardless of eligibility, so we fund it from sadaqah and general donations. If you wish to give Zakat, please choose a Zakat-eligible appeal.
Also giving
Related appeals
Clean Water
Handpumps and borewells, sited with the village and maintained by people who live there.
₹500 gives one person clean water for a year.
Medical Aid
Mobile health camps, treatment costs, dialysis and surgeries — settled directly with the hospital.
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