Flooding Disaster Relief

A project of The Kalgidhar Trust/Baru Sahib
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Background

Climate Change is impacting our lives and liveability. Cloudbursts, Flash Floods, Erratic rain falls and sudden rise in temperatures have become quite common. Due to a sudden cloud burst at Mangarh near Baru Sahib, there was a flood-like situation on 25th September, which caused considerable damage to roads, vehicles, and other assets like furniture, computers, stores of clothing & food stocks. With Guru's grace, children and residents are safe. Electricity & water supply have been restored and all residents & students are being provided with their normal langar. 

The Damage

However, Akal Academy Baru Sahib, a residential education campus and home to many students has been devastated/disrupted due to flash floods resulting out of a cloudburst water. This natural calamity created havoc and damaged a lot of infrastructure at and around Baru Sahib. Flash floods led to deposit of sludge, debris and rocks in 4 lower floors of many buildings and residents in the campus. Quite a number of Vehicles were floating in the water and several fell in the valley. A huge loss has been noted for the furniture, computers, stores of clothing and food stocks. Roads and retaining walls are damaged too!

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Moving Forward

The management is committed to ensuring that all children are safe during this period of crisis and is working to provide a safe and quality life for all residents on its campus.

Estimated loss including all types of damage, civil works, computers, furniture, clothing stores and food stores is in crores of rupees. We solicit support from Sangat in terms of funds & materials to meet this challenge and bounce back with Charhdikala!

We seek the Almighty's blessings to fight with the challenging situation and restore the infrastructure at its earliest. We are grateful to all our supporters for their kind messages and support in this tough time.

Additional coverage: https://youtu.be/rjm1MdSPxik 

  • 01/24/2023

    Disaster Update- Restoration Activities

    Disaster Update- Rebuilding Activities
    'When we rebuild a house, we are rebuilding a home. When we recover from disaster, we are rebuilding lives and livelihoods.

    Our sincere gratitude extends out to our donors at DV Network for standing with us in facing the mammoth challenge of bouncing back with Chardi Kla. We are grateful for their full faith in all our endeavours. We are grateful for the support of DVNetwork in this fight. Our restoration activities have been funded with the assistance of the DV network and donors. In our previous update, we did share about the restoration of the essential services pertaining to food, study and day-to-day basis needs. Post the restoration of these services, we picked up the rebuilding activities with the Almighty's blessings and your continuous support. We would like to share with you the latest updates on the various rebuilding activities we have been involved with

     

    1. Construction of New homes for the Labour residences.

    The residences of the labour at Baru Sahib were badly affected as they were in the lower floors. The heavy flooding of the water not only damaged the walls and floors but also created an alarm to cope with such a situation in future. Management at Baru Sahib unanimously opinionated for the safety of the labour homes and took a decision to construct new homes for them on the upper level of a nearby building to ensure the safety of their family members.

    Pics of the ongoing construction activities is shared below.

     

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    2. Installation of the New DG Set for ensuring a continuous power supply

    An old DG Set was badly affected and needs to be repaired thoroughly. Since it was damaged heavily, the cost of repairing was huge. DG set being critical for emergency needs, a new DG set was installed. 

     

    3. Restoration of Puratan Kacha Kotha Gurdwara

    Being on the lower floor, the old Kacha Gurdwara was affected very severely. The waves of the flooding water caused significant loss to this old building. In the rebuilding activity, floor repairing, wall repairing and repainting of the walls was executed. Pics are shared below

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    4. Repairing the Printing Machinery

    The printing room having printing machines was on the lower floor and the choking of the water affected the machines severely. All the printing machines were repaired and all the damaged components were replaced. 

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    5. Providing new computers and associated peripherals

    The computers which were damaged by the heavy choking of the water and strong tides of flood water were replaced with the new computers. Total 20 computers were replaced along with the required peripherals.

     

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  • 10/11/2022

    Disaster Relief Update

    'Sharing is caring' is an old adage and is a universal truth.

    We are indebted to the kind support we have received from our donors at DV Network and feel grateful from the depth of our heart to stand with us in facing the mammoth challenge of bouncing back with Chardi Kla.  We are grateful for their full faith in all our endeavors. Thanks to DVNetwork too for being together in this fight. With the help of DV network and donors, we have been able to collect funds to work upon the various restoration activities. With the Almighty’s blessings and your continuous support, rebuilding and restoring is picking up its pace. We do wish to share with you the updates for the various activities

    Team of Electricians, Plumbers from Akal Academies across states, and others, along with locals, reached Baru Sahib to help repair and restoration work 

    1. Restoration of Langar Hall

    First and Foremost priority was to make sure that the food as a most critical need is ensured for everyone. The team first approached the Langar hall by clearing all the debris, deposits followed by repairing and re-installing all the equipments.We are glad to share with you that Langar Hall is fully functioning now and serving the food to everyone there. 

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    2. Restoration of Mess for the Kids

    Managing the food supply of thousands of students without a functional mess is a big challenge. Post the restoration of the Langar Hall, the team took up the restoration of the Mess. Mess was quite significantly affected as it has most of the furniture. With the hard efforts of the team, Mess is restored now.


    3. Resuming of the Classes

    Amid the panic, management was very much concerned to resume the classes at the earliest. Post the restoration of the basic necessities, Management resumed the classes with all the safety and security provisions and kids are happy to resume their classes.

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    4. Restoration of the Old Gurdwara (Kacha Kotha)

    The Old Gurdwara Sahib at the lower level was affected too. Team had cleared all the debris and deposits and the repair work is in progress. Till the time of repairing, Prakash of Guru Granth Sahib is shifted to other place.


    Please refer to the link for the review 

    5. Restoration of the External road

    The external road at the Baru Sahib was very badly damaged by the flood. Debris brought by the flood was spread all across the road. Cracks were developend and holes with water logging made the commuting impossible. JCB machines were arranged to remove all the debris and deposits followed by the cleaning. Since, the road is damaged very badly, team of engineering consultants is taken into loop to repair the road with all the required provisions so that a similar event in future does not lead to the same damage again.

    With all your prayers and the blessings of the Almighty, Kalgidhar Trust Baru Sahib is bouncing back—and bringing normalcy to their campus with your support.


    The management is committed to ensuring that all children are safe during this period of crisis and is working to provide a safe and quality life for all residents on its campus.

    We are grateful to you for your kind support and helping us in fighting with this natural calamity. Kindly do spread the word for enabling more and more people to contribute for this cause. DV Network has facilitated "Double the Donation" and your kind act would help in doulbling the impact.

    Wishes from Baru Sahib!

Name Donation Date
Deep Singh $200.00 March 2023
Anonymous $50.00 February 2023
Ruby Kaur $20.00 January 2023
Gurinder Singh $2,000.00 December 2022
Anonymous $50.00 December 2022
kuldip Dosanjh $151.00 December 2022
Tajinder Ahluwalia $101.00 December 2022
M. S. $10.00 December 2022
Ishdeep Singh $250.00 December 2022
Dilmit Singh Anand $101.00 November 2022
Priti Sood $250.00 November 2022
Anonymous $51.00 November 2022
Deep Singh $100.00 November 2022
Match Fund $400.00 November 2022
Manpreet Arora $1,000.00 November 2022
Inderpal Singh Gumer $150.00 November 2022
Match Fund $200.00 November 2022
Sahjit Singh $200.00 November 2022
Match Fund $400.00 November 2022
J. S. $5,000.00 November 2022
Match Fund $400.00 November 2022
Amandeep Dhillon $500.00 November 2022
Rayman Preet $101.00 November 2022
Inderpreet Singh $31.00 November 2022
Match Fund $667.00 October 2022
Match Fund $150.00 October 2022
Match Fund $5,000.00 October 2022
Match Fund $500.00 October 2022
Match Fund $500.00 October 2022
SimranPreet Singh $1,000.00 October 2022
Match Fund $101.00 October 2022
Match Fund $1,000.00 October 2022
Match Fund $100.00 October 2022
Anonymous $100.00 October 2022
JASBIR CHOWDHARY $101.00 October 2022
Match Fund $200.00 October 2022
Deep Singh $200.00 October 2022
Match Fund $1,400.00 October 2022
HARMIT SOHAL $1,400.00 October 2022
Match Fund $1,000.00 October 2022
Manpreet Singh $1,000.00 October 2022
Match Fund $2,000.00 October 2022
Anonymous $2,000.00 October 2022
Match Fund $51.00 October 2022
R. S. $51.00 October 2022
Match Fund $50.00 October 2022
Harpreet Singh $50.00 October 2022
Match Fund $10,000.00 October 2022
Harinderjit Singh $1,000.00 October 2022
Match Fund $100.00 October 2022
Anonymous $100.00 October 2022
Match Fund $250.00 October 2022
Gurpreet Singh Walia $250.00 October 2022
Match Fund $500.00 October 2022
Gurpreet Singh Walia $500.00 October 2022
Match Fund $500.00 October 2022
Gurinder Parmar $500.00 October 2022
Match Fund $10.00 October 2022
Sahib Singh $10.00 October 2022
Match Fund $200.00 October 2022
Anonymous $200.00 October 2022
Match Fund $50.00 October 2022
Jaskaran Singh $50.00 October 2022
Match Fund $1,000.00 October 2022
Anonymous $1,000.00 October 2022
Anonymous $50.00 October 2022
Match Fund $1,000.00 October 2022
SimranPreet Singh $1,000.00 October 2022
Match Fund $50.00 October 2022
Rajesh Chugani $50.00 October 2022
Match Fund $500.00 October 2022
Anonymous $500.00 October 2022
Match Fund $50.00 October 2022
Anonymous $50.00 October 2022
Raminder Khangura $5,000.00 October 2022
Tanveer Singh $150.00 October 2022
Match Fund $7,000.00 October 2022
Armandeep Kahlon $7,000.00 October 2022
Match Fund $500.00 October 2022
Anonymous $500.00 October 2022
Amarjeet Kahlon $10,000.00 October 2022
Match Fund $1,000.00 October 2022
Gurpreet Kaur $1,000.00 October 2022
Match Fund $100.00 October 2022
H M $100.00 October 2022
Match Fund $100.00 October 2022
JASPREET SINGH $100.00 October 2022
jatinder singh $500.00 October 2022
Match Fund $250.00 October 2022
Jaideep Singh $250.00 October 2022
Match Fund $100.00 October 2022
Anonymous $100.00 October 2022
Match Fund $250.00 October 2022
H. K. $250.00 October 2022
Match Fund $100.00 October 2022
Arvinder Singh $100.00 October 2022
Match Fund $250.00 October 2022
Anonymous $250.00 October 2022
Anonymous $500.00 October 2022
Match Fund $100.00 October 2022
Harpreet Singh $100.00 October 2022
Match Fund $200.00 October 2022
Harprit Singh Chhabada $200.00 October 2022
Match Fund $100.00 October 2022
Tarlochan Singh Jaria $100.00 October 2022
Match Fund $251.00 October 2022
J. K. $251.00 October 2022
Match Fund $100.00 October 2022
Virmeet Singh $100.00 October 2022
Match Fund $20.00 October 2022
Anonymous $20.00 October 2022
Match Fund $50.00 October 2022
Anonymous $50.00 October 2022
Match Fund $100.00 October 2022
Anonymous $100.00 October 2022
Anonymous $10.00 September 2022

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