Service Civil International (SCI) – Bangladesh
International Work camps at Cyclone "SIDR" Affected Area
Duration:
March 06 to 20, 2009
Place:
Nizhowla Primary School
Nizhowla, Rangabali
Upazila – Galachipa
District: Patuakhali,Bangladesh.
Maximum Participants: 20 (Twenty) Nature of works:
1. Reconstruction of Primary School
Last date of Entry:
February 22, 2009
Registration Fees: 120 euro
Orientation: March 04, 2009
Tropical Cyclone ‘SIDR’ has left harrowing tales in more than 25 districts (almost half of Bangladesh) affecting
at least 27.44 million people according to the government statistics but the actual figure is 28 districts and 31
million people. The hurricane traumatized the people caught in its wake. As per official estimate more than two
thousand five hundred people have died. According to International Agencies like the Red Crescent Society
the figure is likely to exceed 10,000. Crops which would have been harvested in a couple of weeks had been
washed away by the tidal surge.
People who survived the hurricane were fighting to just stay alive with hardly any food or shelter. Most houses
had been razed to the ground including primary schools the only educational institution in the remote coastal
area and livestock washed away. Thousands of people were spending nights under the
In such a dismal time of national disaster the volunteers of SCI Bangladesh expressed their solidarity and
contributed their voluntary service to start the relief operations and rehabilitation work immediately and also
organises several international work camps with kind support (Moral and financial) and active role of namely
SCI IS, SCI Japan, SCI Croatia, SCI IVS GB, AUI France (who sent their volunteers)and other SCI Branches
etc.
Its now almost three quarter of a year passed after the cyclone SIDR, the affected poor people has just turned
to their normal course of life to survive. Under the circumstances, huge number of school children are just
being deprived of their educational rights. The primary schools in the affected area has eighter been
destroyed or been damaged by the tidal surge. It has now been observed by SCI volunteers as acute problem
to solve by the government itself. So, in order to alleviate the suffering of the school children, the Service Civil
International (SCI) - Bangladesh has put to reconstruct damaged and/or destroyed primary schools of the
affected area.
Meanwhile SCI Bangladesh organised one workcamp in last October 2008 and reconstruct one primary
school at Ragabali, Galachipa, Patuakhali.
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