GPM Rural Emergency Response Program Saves Lives!

Residents of the rural villages of Mokhada that GPM serves are currently facing drastic life or death emergency situations as a result of extreme weather. Seasons of long drought are now being followed by intense monsoons that have ushered in harsh flooding, destruction of property, animal attacks, health care shortfalls, and relentless food insecurity.

Severe flooding is ravaging the community. This has had many devastating impacts over the past few weeks:

• A pregnant woman with complications could not reach a hospital to give birth because her village was cut off from the main road due to surging flooding.
• A child playing in a field was bitten by a poisonous snake and only had a few hours to get to the hospital to receive the antivenom to save his life.
• The entire Botoshi village of 560 individuals experienced food scarcity of essential food items

The community of Mokhada desperately needs tools at their disposal to deal with ongoing emergencies and save lives. Mokhada, a tribal district that has hundreds of village hamlets located in remote jungles or mountainsides in almost isolated conditions. The absence of roads and bridges and other transportation services due to monsoon flooding results in life-threatening situations. This leads to severe anxiety, hardships, stress and extreme danger for the villagers.

In response to this urgent life-threatening situation, GPM has launched the Rural Emergency Response Program aimed at providing crucial life-saving equipment and resources.

The Rural Emergency Response Program, designed in collaboration with members of the community and the support of local government, includes:

• Ambulances. Emergency all-terrain medical vehicles to transport people to hospitals. The
  community currently has none.
• Local emergency medical training. Training local volunteers in emergency logistic response and medical first aid
• Emergency medical supplies. Mobilization of basic health devices, safety equipment and medical supplies including essential medicines.
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  Urgent food rations. Deployment, transportation and delivery of emergency food rations in cases of natural disasters (severe draught, climate-related crops damage)
• Home damage repair. Fixing homes damaged in natural disasters (ie flooding, monsoon rains, cyclones etc)
• Emergency helpline. The creation of emergency 24/7 helpline services for urgent transportation for treatment at nearest health clinics and hospitals.
• Continuity of services. Long-term follow-up and supervision of cases

GPM must immediately raise $100,000 for its Rural Emergency Response Program to provide emergency services to the tribal district of Mokhada serving 180,000 people!

We urgently need your help. We cannot do this without your support: https://rootfunding.com/campaigns/emergency_response

Oh...and by the way, as part of GPM’s Rural Emergency Response Program, the child that was bitten by a snake received the anti-venom in time to save his life, the entire village of Botoshi
received emergency rations and the pregnant woman delivered healthy…twins...a boy and a girl!