"WITH YOU"

Relief Distribution Camps.

It all started on a fine day after supper cyclone AMPHAN strucked many part of state of West Bengal, while strolling on terrace of my building I spoke to our General secretary" why don't we do something for AMPHAN suffered people?" We are already in lockdown and due to super cyclone our FB Live not happening all internet connection was disintegrated! We spoke to other members & we zeroed a place named 'KOABERIA' in South 24 Parganas District ! We appealed to our members and well wisher for their whole hearted support for this Nobel cause. On 7th June we reached 'KOABERIA' after getting permission from competent authority to do our relief work during lock-down. We served almost 350 families with daily essentials like Rice, Dal, Suji, Neutrela Soya Bari, Soap, Salt, Sugar, Chira, Masala, Match box, vegetable oil, Tea, Sanitary napkins etc..and also distributed 350 pieces 'MEHOGINI' saplings to the villagers.

After this relief work we had a sense of satisfaction that we could help some needy family with whatever strength we had.. Again we got a proposal from our one member about a place where AMPHAN destroyed the entire village very badly, Malekangumti (Sundarban) in North 24 Parganas District. This village is just at the border of Bangladesh it's separated by River Kalindi. On 21st June with the help of our members and well-wisher specially Ganesh Chandra Mondal and Surya Makhal who contributed 200 KG Rice and 120 Gamchhas for this relief work. We hired a Tempo traveller with the help of our one member Naushad Alam at very reasonable rate! The team IOE moved Malekangumti (Sundarban) along with Relief warriors Raajesh Shaw, M.Nabi, PK Singh,, Ravi, Gautam, Ataur, Sagufa, Sanghamitra, Tarun, Dhruba, Avijit, Mita, Arindam, Fozail, and Sovan reached Malekangumti (Sundarban)around 3 PM. We reached there late due to bad road and flat tyre of our vehicle. But we completed our task on time and around 130 families were served with our relief materials.

We at The Institute of Exploration not only do adventure in our normal daily life we also keep our spirit high for these types of disaster and always ready for our country man that's the soul of the Institute.

Raajesh Shaw

Secretary (Administration)

The Institute of Exploration, Kolkata