Harsha Parekh, the Executive Trustee of the Bombay Community Public Trust has sent GiveIndia the following report about plans to utilise the funds being collected for victims of the Mumbai terror attacks that took place on November 26, 2008.
Currently, there are two iGive pages set up to help the victims, one by the Oberoi Hotels which is collecting funds till March 31, 2009 and one by Pinstorm which is collecting funds till February 2, 2009.
Just a reminder that GiveIndia as a practice does not do any due diligence on iGive projects. Donors are advised to take their donation decisions keeping this in mind.
FROM BCPT:
BCPT has now compiled the complete list of names of victims injured and deceased and the details of next of kin with addresses in many cases. This has been compiled from different sources.
Many of the affected persons were young adults working in the city with their families in the villages. For example, Mishrilal Morya was an auto-rickshaw driver. He lost his life in the gun fire at CST. He leaves behind a wife and three young children, the oldest 7 years old, and the youngest only 9 months old. They now have no source of income as Mishrilal was the only earning member of the family. His elderly parents were also dependent on him.
Many other NGOs and agencies are contributing in the relief and rehabilitation work with the victims and families. In order to avoid duplication of efforts, we are focusing on 70 families of the deceased and 82 injured persons.
Of the 70 families of the deceased we had focused on, we have contacted 59 families but were not able to locate 11 families since some addresses were incomplete, homes were locked and phone numbers were wrong.
We now have detailed information from 36 families and are in the process of collecting information from the remaining 23 families.
Of the 36 families whose details we have collected, 18 families have stated that they do not need any support. The remaining, a majority of whom are from the underprivileged sections of society, have left behind
17 minor children
3 minor siblings
5 widows
7 retired, dependent parents
2 widowers and
1 family has lost both parents
For the 20 minor children/siblings we propose a sponsorship of Rs. 2,500 per month per child for their education and maintenance and we would like to distribute the amount once in six months for a period of at least 3 years – 2009, 2010 & 2011. (Rs. 6.00 lakh per year required)
In the cases of 10 deceased victims who have left behind widows and /or financially dependent, old parents we propose a lump sum support of Rs. 2.00 lakh to be put in a monthly income deposit scheme. (Rs. 20 lakh required)
We expect that a few more families of the deceased will contact us in the next couple of weeks and estimate that around Rs. 10.00 lakh may be additionally required for their needs.
Of the 80 injured victims to be contacted, the needs of 32 victims are being met by others, 26 do not need any additional support and 7 have not yet been contacted because of inadequate addresses. Thus, presently 15 cases are under consideration. However all of them at present are using the compensation provided by the government and/or railways. A few of them expect that once that is exhausted they may still need support for an additional period of 2 to 4 months. We propose to set aside Rs. 3.00 lakh for medical support if required.
Thus the revised estimate of our needs is now Rs. 51.00 lakh. Of the estimated amount required, we have in place commitments for a little above Rs. 15.00 lakh but are hoping that more contributions will continue to come in.
We seek your support and trust you are able to contribute in our work.
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