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Highlights Of #AllForBengal Telethon: Donate To Help Bengal Recover
Cyclone Amphan has torn through West Bengal. Many parts of the state, including the city of joy, have been devastated. Lakhs of homes have been damaged. Crops in thousands of acres destroyed. Livelihoods lost. The poorest have been hit the hardest. Now your support will help the people of Bengal recover from this cyclone's devastation. Join us to help the poorest who have suffered the most in Bengal. Your donations will help provide food and medication to those who need it the most.
Here are the highlights of the #AllForBengal Telethon:
Shantanu Moitra, Composer, Musician and Pianist on #AllForBengal Telethon:
On May 20th, when Amphan hit Kolkata, I was chatting with my friends and they were saying it is something they have never seen before in their lives. Glasses shattering, howling winds of 130 kmph, trees falling, electric poles falling - devastation. And it just occurred to me that if this was happening in a place like Kolkata, what was happening in the interiors of Bengal? In villages of Bengal. Next day, my fears came to be true. We got to know that villages were wiped out, Sunderbans, 24 parganas. This is a very difficult time for Bengal, with Corona and then Amphan. But I believe that a lot of relief work needs to be done - is happening, of course, but needs to be done for Bengal, to come back to where it was. We are all in it together. Bengal is part of me, part of what I do. I feel the pain. I plead to all of you that with whatever little you can, let's come together and help Bengal.
Cyclone Amphan has torn through West Bengal. Many parts of the state, including the city of joy, have been devastated. Lakhs of homes have been damaged. Crops in thousands of acres destroyed.
Livelihoods lost. The poorest have been hit the hardest. Now your support will help the people of Bengal recover from this cyclone’s devastation.
Join us to help the poorest who have suffered the most in Bengal. Your donations will help provide food and medication to those who need it the most.
Shelter Materials
Establishing temporary homes, shelter materials will be provided
Food Baskets
Each basket will serve a family of 5 members with nutritious food items for 15 days
Hygiene & Sanitation
Safe drinking water & hygiene material to prevent COVID-19 infection. Awareness on community water, sanitation and hygiene to prevent water-borne infections
Livelihood Restoration
Of marginal farmers and returnee migrant workers. The support includes seeds and fertiliser for the Kharif crop season, restoration of Pan Boroj (betel leaves cultivation), poultry farming support for landless poor and other need-based livelihoods restoration activities
For Children
Home-based learning and activity kits for children as part of psychosocial support
