Embracing the World completes 242 homes for the Raichur Flood Victims
August, 2010
Raichur, Karnataka
Embracing the World handed over new homes to 242 families from the
flooded islands of Kurvakurda and Mangigadda today in the village
of Dongrampur, in the Raichur District of Karnataka. As part of its INR
50 crore (nearly 11 million US Dollars) relief-and-rehabilitation
project for victims of unprecedented flooding in Karnataka and Andhra
Pradesh late last year, Embracing the World
has pledged to build 2,000 new houses for victims who lost their homes
in the flooding. In February 2010, Embracing the World became the first
organisation to complete homes for the flood victims, when it completed
100 new houses just 20 days after beginning construction. At the
time, while presiding over the inauguration ceremony, the Chief
Minister of Karnataka, Shri. B.S. Yeddyurappa lauded Embracing
the World's efforts, and said he hoped the speed and efficiency with
which Embracing the World had completed the homes would inspire other
NGOs to move quickly to help the flood victims.
 The
procurement of materials, management of the project, and liasion with
government officials as well as members of the community was all
handled by Embracing the World . Beyond that, many of Amma’s
devotees and well wishers from all parts of India as well as University
students from Japan volunteered their time and energy to help build the
houses so quickly. The villagers of Dongrampur, where the houses are
being constructed for the people from the flooded islands, were
themselves extremely cooperative, despite the fact that their own
houses have not yet been constructed. Embracing the World intends
to build an additional 500 houses for the villagers of
Dongrampur. In addition to this, the people of the two island
villages of Kurvakala and Agrahara are also being rehabilitated to a
site on the mainland at Atkur. All four affected villages have
been regularly getting flooded during the monsoon season; the villagers
have expressed great relief at being relocated to the safety of the
mainland.
More than one million people were displaced by last year’s flooding.
The Chief Minister was also present for the handover of the 242 homes,
where he exhorted the villagers to treat their new houses as temples.
“Every morning, when I start my prayers, I remember Mata
Amritanandamayi and all her good work. You are fortunate you are being
given these new houses. Earlier, you people lived without toilets,
electricity or water. All that is being provided to you now.” Revenue
Minister G Karunakara Reddy, Housing Minister Katta Subramania Naidu
and Fisheries Minister Anand Asnotikar also attended the function.
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