United Way of Baroda has been in frontlines during supported relief work to combat natural and man-made calamities, disasters, pan India.
Assistance during Disaster relief including finance grants for State Government, Funds aid to comrade-in-arms, Family essential aids to the calamities affected families, educational support for the vulnerable students during pandemic diseases and the list goes on.
We extended our support towards the State Government and donated INR 21 Lakhs to safeguard our country patriots who were in danger and their lives were in serious question.
As of 16 July 2013, according to figures provided by the Government of Uttarakhand, more than 5,700 people were “presumed dead.”[3] This total included 934 local residents. The death toll was later placed at 6,054.
According to the Home Ministry of India, several thousand villages across the state had been hit and 390 villages had been completely submerged. In actual figures 2600 villages were reported to be affected in Jammu and Kashmir, out of which 390 villages in Kashmir were completely submerged. 1225 villages were partially affected and 1000 villages were affected in Jammu Division.
Many parts of Srinagar, including the Border Security Force (BSF) HQ in Sanant Nagar & Army cantonment in Badam Bagh, were inundated, and vital roads were submerged, by the floods.
We extended our helping hands towards the Government and donated INR 5 Lakhs for supporting the adversely affected families.
This attack was one of the deadliest attack on Indian Army reported by BBC where 19 soldiers died while 19-30 soldiers were badly injured.
United Way of Baroda donated INR 20 Lakhs to support these countrymen to gave up their lives while fighting for our nation.
A week after torrential rains leading to flood wreaked havoc in north Gujarat, state revenue department has declared Banaskantha and Patan districts as ‘disaster-affected areas’. These districts were declared as flood-affected areas as per the provisions of ‘Gujarat State Disaster Management Act of 2003. The decision to declare these two districts, which were hit the most by the flood, as ‘disaster affected’.
Our support was extended towards these two adversely affected districts where we provided financial support up to 21 Lakhs.
Kerala State Government received financial aids up to INR 1.2 Million to safeguard our countrymen from Kerala Floods. The funds was utilised for the following activities in 9 locations of Wayand District of Kerala.
Our CRPF Jawans fought for the country while risking their lives. This attack was the deadliest attacks on Indian Army Forces to date where 40 CRPF brave hearts lost their lives.
United Way of Baroda donated INR 40 Lakhs to the families of these CRPF Jawans.
Due to heavy rain, the city of Vadodara and its administrative districts were adversely affected by severe flooding. Nearly 50cm of rain fell on the city within 12 hours, with 424mm recorded in one 6 hours period. As a result, the nearby vishwamitri river rose to 1 meter below the danger line and the Ajwa dam overflowed, flooding the city. During this tenure, we stood strong for fellow city population and provided them with every possible way we could.
15000 Families received support in terms of clothes, food packets, mineral water supply, and ration kits (15 kg each) including oil, rice, flour, tea, chili powder, salt, turmeric, etc.
All 15 flood affected areas of Vadodara city were supported for 7 days. 100 underprivileged students from these 15 affected areas were supported for Educational Kit Aid.