UNITED SIKHS Kashmir Relief team at the Gurdwara Sahib Shaheed Bunga UNITED SIKHS Kashmir Relief team with blankets, medicine and water supplies. UNITED SIKHS Kashmir Relief team with blankets, medicine and water supplies. UNITED SIKHS banner outside the Gurdwara Sahib Shaheed Bunga. UNITED SIKHS volunteers decomposing waste at relief camps. UNITED SIKHS Volunteers delivering medicine at relief camps run by Muslim brothers. UNITED SIKHS Volunteers decomposing waste at relief camps UNITED SIKHS Volunteers decomposing waste at relief camps UNITED SIKHS Volunteers unloading blankets. UNITED SIKHS Volunteers delivering blankets. UNITED SIKHS Volunteers delivering medicine at relief camps run by Muslim brothers. UNITED SIKHS Volunteers delivering medicine at relief camps. UNITED SIKHS Volunteers delivering medicine at relief camps. UNITED SIKHS Volunteers unloading blankets. Towns Affected by Flooding Srinagar City Mehjoor Nagar Jawahar Nagar Raj Bagh Gogi Bagh Suthra Shahi Indra Nagar Lal Chowk Shiv Pura (mostly populated by Sikhs) Relief Camps Set Up Gurdwara Barzulla Baghaat Gurdwara Chatti Patcahi Zithiaar Rescue Camp New Airport Rescue Camp Gurdwara Sahib Shaheed Bunga Items Delivered by UNITED SIKHS Water Life Jackets Blankets x 2100 Medicine Delivered by the UNITED SIKHS Kashmir Relief Team Ashthalin pumps for asthmatics Betadine solution to clean wounds. Soframycin ointment for open wounds. Certizine tablets for allergies and bites. Tetanus injections Insulin Syringes (for insulin and otherwise Water-purifying tablets ORS Packets Norlfox,Norlfox-TZ, Metron 400g,Lopamide Benedryl, Zedex Betadine Emset.. Ondem.. Aciloc.. Rantidine Sandopa Tablets Diabetics Tablets MDopa tablets for hypertension Pantop -40 Paracetamol Ofloxacin Ornidazole Ofloxacin(Plain) Glyphosate Medicines for thyroid patients Augmentin 625 Paracetamol Syrup Staxyn 200 mg Thyronorm 25 The UNITED SIKHS Kashmir Relief Team has been hard at work delivering aid to those who have been left with nothing but the clothes on their backs. With your kind donations and support, our incredible and valiant team has been able to distribute medicine worth 1.5 lakh at Gurdwara Clinic (Bazulla Baghaat), which has become the main rescue clinic where life-saving medicine has been distributed. The team as has also circulated over 900 blankets to deprived victims at the Gurdwara Complex (Barzulla Baghaat(, Community Center Rescue Camp and Mehjoor Nagar. Today, our ground volunteers will be travelling to inaccessible areas to donate blankets and food aid. UNTED SIKHS ground volunteer, Jatinderpal Singh, who has been working in the Srinagar area said: “The condition is very bad in Srinagar district. The district has lost everything. Everyone who lives in the village has been affected. The destruction is massive and they cannot use anything from their homes, people are literally broken and they have nothing left”. “There is a still a lot of medical shortage. We are also in need of more blankets and utensils to eat food. ” The UNITED SIKHS Humanitarian Aid team still needs your support to send aid to these vulnerable communities! The work has only just begun; we still have a long way to go in order to bring Kashmir back to normality! Make a difference, make an impact, and make a change. Kashmir is counting on us!

A state of emergency has been declared in Kashmir as the areas of Jammu, Srinagar, Pulwama, Shopian and Anantnag are battling one of the worst floods in decades. Jammu is located in the mountainous vicinity and fears are growing for victims as the weather will soon be turning cold.
Over a million people have been affected by the catastrophic floods, the worst the state has seen in 60 years. The town has suffered six days of heavy rain and flooding; leaving more than 200 people dead while approximately 970 people have been rescued from the Panjab province of Kashmir.
Water levels have reached a staggering 15-18 feet. Thousands have been left without food and water. Furthermore, many families have been displaced and left without shelter and basic requirements for survival, forcing them to build shelter from wreckage. Communication systems have been interrupted, with telephone networks not functioning, leaving many areas inaccessible and only reachable via boat. Essential roads which lead to the airport have been inundated under several feet of water.
The Indian Army has stepped into full action and is helping those who are severely stranded. 600,000 people are still trapped and struggling to survive. The army has deployed 184 columns and the IAF has also supplied helicopters to help with rescue efforts.
According to our UNITED SIKHS ground volunteers, at least 30-35 thousand Sikhs have been affected by the floods. At the moment, Srinagar is one of the only areas which are accessible by air; the other three districts are completely cut off from any form of communication and aid. Furthermore, funerals have been halted as there is no room or time for them to be performed.
A Gurdwara which has not been affected by the floods, based in the Budgam district, called Shaheed Bunga Sahib, has become a place refuge for many survivors, Sikh, Muslim and Hindus.
A UNITED SIKHS Volunteer at Srinagar, Bhupinder Singh, explained that: “70% of the population in Srinagar has not been evacuated; there is a dire shortage of food, medicines, and blankets. This is affecting expectant mothers.”
“Many young children are also being impacted in regards to medicine and lack of baby food. Rescue services are slow and we are working as much as we can.
Also, there is a shortage of drinking water. We are also asking people for water. I have brought some medicines from Jammu, for the victims.”
At present there are 4000-5000 people at the Shaheed Bunga Sahib Gurdwara and langar is being served three to four times a day to all victims.”
The UNITED SIKHS humanitarian aid and relief team will carry out work in the areas where aid assistance is most critically needed. Currently UNITED SIKHS is shipping 2000 blankets to victims in Srinagar, as this is region in which the situation is most dire.
However, substantially more is needed to ensure that the death toll does not rise and that people are rescued. Kashmir is in desperate need of your help, time is running out and the city is drowning and lives are being lost.
UNITED SIKHS asks its supporters for donations, in order to provide medical supplies and baby food as main hospitals such as SMHS and Lalla Ded have been severely affected and communication is severely hindered. This is a matter of urgency.
Our ground team has made an assessment of items which are urgently needed:
– Beta dine solution to clean wounds
– Soframycin ointment for open wounds
– Tetanus injections
– Water-purifying tablets
– Insulin
– Cortisone tablets for allergies and bites
– Ashthalin pumps for asthmatics
The UNITED SIKHS Humanitarian Aid team needs your support to send aid to these vulnerable communities!
Make a difference, make an impact, and make a change. Kashmir is counting on us!
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