The southern state of Tamil Nadu (India) is prone to many natural disasters such as cyclones, storms, earthquakes, fires, floods and drought. Every year, cyclones ravage the area leading to loss of lives and livelihoods. We provide disaster assistance to other parts of India, as needed.
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What is Empower Tamizhagam (ET-Impact) doing?
Over the years, Empower Tamizhagam has taken many proactive steps to decrease the impact of such natural calamities.
ET-Impact assists through funding, communication, logistics, disaster management. We leverage and focus the ability of local governments, corporates and NGOs to respond more quickly and resiliently to disasters.
How ET-Impact functions during a disaster?
- Directly provide food, clothing and shelter through our field teams. Conduct mitigation and relief measures
- Operates as an Information hub – coordinate with other NGOs, govt bodies, welfare associations to deliver information and food supplies.
- Provide transportation and logistics support to organisations and the government for delivery of relief materials.
- Broad assistance to the affected, the homeless and the poor.
Past Outcomes Include:
- Provided over 10,000 meals through food / dry rations to families of migrants, day workers, widows, aged, children, differently-abled, slums etc.
- Delivered food and supplies to over 50 burn victims and domestic violence survivors (predominantly women) and family across greater Chennai City and vicinity – Over 5,000 meals.
- Distributed essential supply kits (Food, mask, sanitizers etc) to the front-line workers and poor.
- The cellular communications blackout was one of the biggest challenges during the devastating Chennai Floods in 2015. The Government, NGOs and civil society were unable to coordinate and deliver relief to the most affected people. ET-Impact worked with Airtel cellular network and the govt to ensure power/generators for cellular towers. This had a direct impact on thousands of lives at stake.
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