Aid To Refugees

A team from Pingalwara visited the refugee camps around Jammu & Akhnoor with the aim of providing help. In three camps the situation was under control, however, in one of the camps the crowds could not be controlled in spite of the assurance that help available was adequate for all the inmates. The mission had to be abandoned as the situation was getting worse. Community projects like the water supply, medicl camp, aid to the schools is preferable than help to the individual families.
A door to door search was made to reach out to the poorest.

Aid to flood victims

In August 2004, many of the villages in the district of Sangrur were inundated due to breaches in the river Ghaggar. The worst affected were the daily wage earners who were left without food and shelter. Pingalwara team led by Bibi Dr Inderjit Kaur visited the affected areas and provided the urgently required help in the form of rations, clothes and medical aid. What is the main cause of worry is not the floods but the drug addiction which is rampant in the villages. It is a most alarming situation.

Aid to Tsunami affected Areas

On 26th December 2004, Car Nicobar Islands were hit by massive Tsunami waves. Following help was extended:
4.5 tons of relief supplies were airlifted with the help of Indian Air Force on 3rd January, 2005. Subsequently three wagon loads of supplies were dispatched by train.

                      Damage in Camlbell Bay (all photographs by Baba Ishar Singh)