Bangladesh Cyclone-Sidr Appeal
We at the Centre for Coastal Environmental Conservation (CCEC), a MAP network
partner since our formation in 1993, are making a special request for your assistance to help
cyclone victims to survive, recover, rebuild, and rehabilitate the coastal environment. The
CCEC office located in Khulna is not far from the most severely Cyclone-Sidr impacted
coastal communities and we have the capacity and desire to provide much needed assistance
but your critical and timely support is needed.
Cyclone-Sidr, likened to a mini Tsunami, due its powerful 5-6 metre tidal surge hit the
Bangladesh Sundarban coast, Nov.15, officially taking 3,243 human lives to-date but it is
estimated this figure could rise to 10,000. Seventy lac people of 12 districts are affected. 138
km embankment eroded. 50 lac people are facing housing shelter problem. Hundreds of
fishermen of Dubla fishing island died due to lack of cyclone shelter. A huge amount of
infrastructure including housing, schools, communication towers, fishing boats, piers were
smashed with the Sidr tidal surge and wind velocity of 250 km/hr. Barguna, Patuakhali,
Pirojpur, Barisal, and Jhalokathi coastal districts face unbelievable serious damage with
extensive loss of human life, livestock, rice paddy, shrimp farms, and other agricultural lands
which have been left barren. Crops were just about to be harvested.
The relief effort has started but many villages in remote areas are left with no food, no
water, no shelter, no cloths and may not be reached in time. CCEC is ready to assist areas
where we’ve been working, but we need your partnership so we can get emergency supplies
to where they’re most needed.
Sundarban the UNESCO declared World Heritage Site, is the world largest mangroves
forest and took a direct hit which helped to save coastal lives and resources by sacrificing
herself as a buffer. The magnitude of devastation would be manifold if not for the Sundarban
mangroves which suffered extensive damage according to early reports. A great deal of
assistance will be required in the medium term to rehabilitate this critical protective barrier
against future cyclones and tidal surges.
Since 1993, the CCEC, a local environmental NGO based at Khulna, has been
working for Sundarban biodiversity conservation and promoting sustainable harvesting
involving the Sundarban stakeholders, the Bouali (wood and thatch cutters), Mouali (honey
extractors) and Jalley (fisherfolk and crab harvesters) the most vulnerable group.
If you would like to contribute, any assistance in the form of money small or large it is
most welcome. Please find our banking details below. We guarantee that all incoming
support will be used directly for food, water, fuel, shelter supplies and longer-term mangrove
restoration efforts. We are obviously not a ‘relief organization’, but our local contacts,
networks and on the ground experience, working in the affected areas will be of great help for
effective coordination and distribution and longer-term development.
CCEC promises to continue doing their utmost to bring relief to those in need. We’ve a full
project proposal we would be happy to share with you for Sundarban mangrove restoration
around BWDB polder 32 and poverty reduction of the Sundarban stakeholders through crab
fattening as an adaptation to climate change to help prevent future cyclone damage.
We thank you for your concern and support.
Sincerely yours,
Mowdudur Rahman
Director
Centre for Coastal Environmental Conservation (CCEC)
House # 93, Road # 2,
Sonadanga R/A,
Khulna-9000
Bangladesh
Phone: 880 41 810982
E-mail: ccec_bd@khulna.bangla.net
Legal status (registration identity): The CCEC is registered by the Foreign Donation
(Voluntary Activities) Regulation Rules 1978 under the NGO Affairs Bureau, Government of
Bangladesh on 26 October 1996. Registration No. 1085
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For Donations:
Account Name: Centre for Coastal Environmental Conservation
Name of Bank: AGRANI
Address of Bank: Agrani Bank, Shamsur Rahman Road Branch, Khulna, Bangladesh, Tel:
880 41 724 027
Bank Account Number: CA-1915
Home Address of Account Holder: TAKDIR MOHAL, House No. 93, Road No. 2
Sonadanga R/A, Khulna-9000, Bangladesh, Tel: 880-41-810982 E-mail:
ccec_bd@khulna.bangla.net
SWIFT Code: AGBKBDDHA023
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