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Wayanad Landslides Disaster Relief

In the Wayanad district of Kerala, India, over 125 people have tragically lost their lives, and hundreds more are feared trapped after three landslides hit the region within four hours amid heavy rain. Over 4,000 individuals have been hospitalized. Rescue efforts are underway, despite challenging weather conditions and forecasts of further rain. Multiple agencies, including the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the Armed Forces, have joined the operation. The affected areas include Mundakkai, Chooralmala, Attamala, and Noolpuzha. Roads have collapsed, a bridge has been swept away, and several areas have become inaccessible.

Sewa Canada International’s partner organizations, Seva Bharathi Keralam, are actively working on the ground, providing critical aid. They are assisting in the following ways:

Supporting the National Disaster Response Force in their rescue operations.
Assisting in the identification of victims’ bodies as they are recovered.
Preserving bodies in medical freezers for identification by surviving relatives.
Arranging funeral services for the deceased and deploying mobile crematoriums.
Providing food to around 500 people, with the number expected to rise in the coming days.
Setting up community kitchens to ensure that victims have access to hot meals and that no one goes hungry.
Offering urgent medical care to the injured and facilitating access to healthcare facilities using ambulances and other resources.
Supplying clothes, essentials, and shelter materials to survivors and those left homeless.
Deploying additional Seva Bharathi ambulances from various districts of Kerala to Wayanad.
Reaching previously inaccessible areas to extend rescue and relief services.
Equipping rescue teams with more resources and equipment to save lives.

100% of your donations will directly support these ongoing efforts on the ground. As the rescue phase concludes, the funds raised will shift to rehabilitation and rebuilding in the coming weeks and months. Once assessments are completed, these efforts could include constructing homes, funding education for 100 orphaned children, rebuilding infrastructure, and providing skills training for survivors to become self-reliant.

All donors will receive tax-deductible receipts in Canada, along with regular updates on our website and this page as the situation progresses. We kindly urge you to donate generously.Donations can also be made by cheque, payable to “Sewa Canada International,” and mailed to the following address. Please mention “Wayanad Landslides Relief”:

Address: P.O. Box 76621, 1661 Denison Street

Markham – ON, L3R 0N5

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Sewa Canada International Aid Inc is a registered Canadian charitable organization with over three decades of experience in global humanitarian efforts, including disaster relief projects.

Goal: $20,000.00

Collected: $13,200.00

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Updates

Update #7

7 Aug 2024 10:52 AM | Sewa Canada (Administrator)

This short video summarizes the work on the ground to date, by our partners/volunteers on the ground providing rescue and relief services. Rescue phase has ended and moved into relief and rehabilitation phase. While the commentary is in Malayalam, the visuals should provide insight into the work sans knowledge of Malayalam.

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Update #6

6 Aug 2024 10:49 AM | Sewa Canada (Administrator)

As rescue phase ends, relief work at ground zero and surrounding relief centres, camps and homes continues. Collection of relief material – food, medicines, clothes and other essentials for distribution from various districts in Kerala continues, transportation to Kozhikode main centre for further distribution to Wayanad continues.

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Update #5

4 Aug 2024 10:46 AM | Sewa Canada (Administrator)

Sewa International has come forward with a commitment to sponsor the education of over 100 children affected by the landslides. The project is in collaboration with SevaBharathi Kerala. Their school fees, school uniform and other essentials.

Convoys such as these by our partners on the ground (SevaBharathi Keralam) from different districts of Keralam, bring emergency relief materials (medicines & food) to their base camp for organizing and distribution to various locations in Wayanad. Volunteers continue to work round the clock organizing and coordinating this relief.

150 of our volunteers are serving in Ground Zero

1000s of our volunteers are working in various districts of Kerala in collecting, organizing and transporting aid.

45 SevaBharathi ambulances have been deployed in Wayanad and Malappuram districts

Our teams continue to use our Mobile Cremation Unit to cremate bodies.

Bodies are being found downstream in Malappuram district. Hence ambulances in Malappuram are deployed to transport these bodies to hospitals and mortuaries.

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Update #4

2 Aug 2024 10:41 AM | Sewa Canada (Administrator)

Our volunteers on the ground (SevaBharathi Keralam) continue to serve in rescue, relief and clearing services in Wayanad in effected areas.

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Update #3

1 Aug 2024 10:26 AM | Sewa Canada (Administrator)

Our volunteers continued to assist with rescue services and also contributing to provide end of life rituals & a proper funeral/cremation of the victims.

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Update #2

31 Jul 2024 10:22 AM | Sewa Canada (Administrator)

“Chitagni” – our partner organization on the ground, Sevabharathi’s mobile cremation system operational at Churalmala, Wayanad landslide disaster site. The death toll in Wayanad’s Churalmalai landslide has crossed 200. The bodies are still being recovered. Due to the incessant rains, not only the rescue operation but also the burial of the recovered bodies are being hampered. Sevabharati’s mobile mortuary system has been made operational at Chitagni Churalmala to cremate these dead bodies with appropriate end of life rituals. Hot meals and water continued to be provided by our volunteers to the surviving victims.

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Update #1

30 Jul 2024 10:06 AM | Sewa Canada (Administrator)

Our partner organization SevaBharathi volunteers on the ground have been working with National Disaster Response Force and the Armed forces in assisting them with rescue efforts an working to provide urgent medical aid, access to healthcare facilities using their Ambulances and resources. Food provided to 500 people and work to setup community kitchen to serve hot meals in coming days while working on the logistics to provide it i.e. cooking gas, raw food materials & more volunteers. Our volunteers are also helping with Funerals for deceased and storage of bodies in freezers for identification by next to surviving kith and kin. Access to many impacted locations is still a challenge, but our volunteers are attempting to reach those places as well. More of their ambulances are being diverted from other districts of Keralam to Wayanad to help with the efforts there. More of our volunteers will be pouring in as well. The following pictures are from our volunteers on the ground.

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