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Event Report: Assam Floods Relief Fund (2019).

Helping Brainz teamed up with Bibek Bora of SEWA, a NGO based in Assam, during the Assam Floods in 2019. Helping Brainz had transported essential supplements like lentils, rice, cooking oil and medicines through train to SEWA in Assam. Once, the necessary supplements reached Assam, the team of SEWA packaged it, in order to be distributed to the flood affected villages in Assam. Due to heavy floods, the road transport was inaccessible. Hence, the SEWA team, used boats as a means of transport to reach these villages. The essentials were distributed in 10 villages, including Maujili, which is an island village of Assam . SEWA’s 25 volunteers distributed the essentials to 700+ families. Also, SEWA’s 5 volunteers and interns, who were college students, collected donations for the Assam Flood Relief Fund. The NGO, SEWA, had to face certain obstacles. Such as the food materials received, most of them were damaged, which created shortage of essentials, so they had to arrange and replace the damaged materials. Another problem was, due to heavy floods, there was no road connectivity to reach out to the flood hit villages and families residing there. Despite of all the obstacles, SEWA, with the essentials received to them with the help of Helping Brainz, provided the essentials to maximum flood affected villages in Assam.