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O the surviving amilies o the 1994 violent attack

we helped the most needy o those

providing shelter to their amily

teaching their children to read, write and much more

how to earn or their amily

to work or the progress o this country

and we still are with them...

Then came nature’s ury in the shape o food &

the violent pogrom by some.

Assam again was burning & bleeding badly

The victims had nowhere to run

We humbly volunteered

to this day...

Assam Relief Programme





Our crying inants, screaming children, semi nude girls hiding themselves at the back o their men, disappointed aces, huge crowd

outside toilet, this was the inside picture o Chirang reugee camp when we visited in July. For ew minutes, I lost my control and

wondered how people can be inhuman at this level. Why people orget that we may have dierent religion, language or even

belong to dierent nation but we all belong to one human race which is supposed to be superior rom other creature on earth.

In 2012 and rom last ew years, lakhs people met with their ate due to the over own o Brahmaputra and pre-planned attack by

some extremists in the name o cleaning o Bangladeshi infltrators.

With the aim to provide relie to these innocent people, we launched a package o multiaceted activities including Assam riot relie

programme, Flood relie programme, Model village, Food kits distribution and advocacy programme.

Rehab’s Assam Relie Programme started on emergency basis, and distributed baby ood packets, polythene bags, mosquito nets,

candles, buckets, mugs, clothes, utensils and other necessary items in the reugee camps o Chirang, Dhubri, Kokrajhar, Barpeta

and Bongaigaon.

About 1000 kg attened rice, sugar and other necessary ood materials were distributed in ood aected villages o Assam. Legal

awareness programmes were organised requently or ood aected and riot hit victims so that they can legally claim or their loss.

Rehab Model Village initiated with a vision to ensure that every one o these victims should have a home, access to education,

pure drinking water, medical support and employment opportunity. With the grace o God, we have built 60 houses and among

them 45 have been distributed. Achieving UN MDG Goal 2, we are running pre-primary school and also acilitating ree tuition

classes to students and drop outs. On need basis, Rehab released scholarships or the students who like to study and organisedweekly and bi-monthly medical camps or reducing maternal mortality and inant mortality. Our doctors counseled women or

reproductive child health, neo natal care and general and personal hygiene. Moving orward rom charity to empowerment, team

ormed three Sel Help Groups; one man SHG and two women SHGs. From next month, we will release loan or their proposed

proposals such as rearing o goat, bualo, papad making, marketing ood items and clothes etc.

Apart rom this, 7773 ood packets were distributed among the amilies who have been temporarily rehabilitated at Government

Reugee Camps.

I want to express my sincere gratitude to all our stakeholders or their overwhelming support or achieving the goal o Assam

Relie Project, aiming to empower innocents made victims o ethnic cleaning and natural calamity irrespective o caste, creed and

religion.

With all the best wishes

Adv. Hafz Rashid Choudhury Trustee, Rehab India Foundation

The author is the Working President o All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) and Trustee o Rehab India Foundation, whose academic qualication

is M.A and LLM. He was Principal o A. K. Chandra Law College, Silchar Assam, was honoured as a designated Senior Advocate by Guwahati High

Court, elected member o North-Eastern Bar Council, member - Aligarh Muslim University Court, and Vice Chairman o Aligarh Muslim University Old

Boys Association, North Eastern Region.

Introduction Milestones

Foundation for Rehab Model Village, Nov, 2009

At the handing over (Phase I), May, 2011

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Rehab Model Village

HealthcareMedical Camp; weekly and bi-monthly

camps organized, provided ree

consultation and medicines to the patients.

Mobile Medical Unit Mobile medical van caters to the needs

o 3 districts namely Chirag, Kokarajar&

Golpara where people aected due to

Ethnic clashes in March 2012 are staying

in temporary shelters. It provides 24 x 7

ree medical check-up along with medicine

and lab test.

Economic Development Sel Help Group; identifed benefciaries,

ormed three sel help groups namely

Moromi (women group), Beauty (women

group) and Rehab men’s group with ten

members in each group, and loans are

now being dispensed to these groups.

Government Pension Scheme; met with

M. Gosh-Ofcer in-charge o government

pension schemes and eorts are being

made to acilitate it in the village.

Disaster Management District Disaster Management Department

organized training progamme or CBOs

on prevention o oods, earth quake

and fre on March 22, 2013 at Deputy

Commissioner Ofce.

Pankaj Kumar Choudhary, Bongaigaon

District Project Ofcer o Disaster

Management Department Assam was

delighted to acknowledge the work o

Rehab. He said to Gaju Rahman, Assistant

Project Manager that Rehab inputs will be

acknowledged in the government planning

process in Disaster Management in New

Bongaigaon District, Assam. Nearly thirty

non government organizations participated.

As a result o communal riots and natural

calamities thousands o amilies have been

compelled to ee their habitats in the state

o Assam. The most unortunate among

them are the victims o the murderous

riots engineered by extremists in 1994.

Thousands o amilies had lost their homes,

agricultural land, cattle etc.

There has been no eective measure

to rehabilitate these desolate people

either by the government or by voluntary

organizations. Ater detailed study and

analysis o the real issues and problems

o thousands o people, Rehab India

Foundation launched the Model Village

Project in Assam.

Under this project, we aim to provide

cost eective houses, education, medical

aid, income generation and employment

oriented programmes or the people

staying inside the Model Village.

Rehabilitation A total o sixty houses and a prayer

hall-cum-education centre are completed

now. Out o this 45 houses have been

distributed to 45 most deserving amilies

in the camps.

EducationPreprimary Academy; was inaugurated

on 26th February, 2013 within the village

with two teachers. Study materials wereprovided ree o cost to the children. A total

o 12 children rom model village & 28

children rom nearby Nauchanguri village

are getting tuition classes rom 9.00am to

12.30pm

Moral Education; Moral education

programme started to maintain peace and

harmony, Children learn poems and moral

lessons. Nearly thirty students rom within

and neighboring villages attending the

classes daily rom 6.00 pm to 8.30 am.

Sports; With the support o Nehru Yuva

Kenda, Rehab organized indoor games

or the community. Atur Rahman, Project

Director Nehru Yuva Kendra donated

gaming articles to the acility.



Assam Flood Relief Survey of Riot Hit

Camps

Assam the gateway to the seven

northeastern states o India, aced the

nature’s ury once again. Every year

the oods leave a trail o destruction,

washing away Villages, submerging

paddy felds, drowning livestock,

besides causing loss o human lieand property worth several crores o

Rupees.

Nearly 1.5 million people have been

displaced by oods in the north-

eastern state o Assam. Eleven people

have died in separate incidents o

drowning in a week during oods.

Eighteen o 27 districts have been

inundated by ood waters.

The July 2012 oods in Assam killed

more than 100 people and orced

over fve million people to leave their

homes. The state government had

said these oods were the worst in the

state since 1998.

According to rescue ofcia ls, Over

2000 villages had been inundated by

water overowing rom Brahmaputra

River.

Volunteers o Rehab India Foundation

were deployed immediately and

distributed ood relie material to the

worst aected victims o Lakhipur,

Dubapara, Goalpara towns, and the

river bank areas around Brahmaputra

o Goalpara District in lower Assam

rom 1st to 17th July 2012.

More than 100 members o the

Rehab team helped thousands o

people by distributing attened rice,

sugar and other necessary ood stu

in ood aected Villages o Assam.

To start the relie work, Rehab surveyed

the reugee camps on September 8th,

9th &10th with the help o more than 250

volunteers and collected inormation on

health, hygiene, sanitation, ood, clothes,

property loss, legal assistance, death,

injuries etc. in Chirang, Kokrajhar, Dhubri,

Bongaigaon and Barpeta districts.

District Chirang

8 people were killed and seven severely

injured during the violence. It was ound

that the camps were over crowded with

not an inch o space to spare. Sanitation

leaves much to be desired. 100 to 200

people have only one toilet. There was

severe shortage o baby ood and clothing.

There were serious health problems and

looming threat o epidemics like cholera and

waterborne diseases. 90% o the permanent

houses o these people were looted or burnt.

District Kokrajhar

The total number o victims were 54506 o

which 23,037 men, 20,313 women and

11156 children. Food was scarce and uel

rare. Survival o these people was at stake.

Nine people have lost their lives and 18

were grievously injured. The loss o property

was estimated to be in crores. 1491 houses

were looted and destroyed. There were 295

pregnant women o dierent stages who

needed immediate medical attention.

District Dhubri

There were 31,040 victims belonging to

8,900 aected amilies. Among them

12,302 are men, 10627 women and

8,111 children (all rom Kokrajhar Dist) 15

people lost their lives and 21 got severely

injured. Many people had skin problems.

The camps located in schools were under

the threat o evacuation as the schools were

going to be reopened. Relie materials and

medical aid were insufcient. There were

202 pregnant women o dierent stages.

Bongaigaon and Barpeta DistrictsThe extent o damage to their property

is almost total. Houses, household items,

livestock and agricultural products have

been destroyed. 160 Adivasis were also

living in these camps along with Muslims.

Kitchens and lavatories were in the open

feld. Foodstus were not sufcient. Lack

o medical acilities and scarcity o fre

wood added to the woes o reugees.

Place Item Distributed No. o Benefciaries Amount

Nagarbera Area Rice & Sugar 1500 amilies 59,000

Barpeta Area Rice 84 amilies 12,000

Goroimary Area Rice & Sugar 525 amilies 12,700

Nagaon District Rice 100 amilies 14500

Goalpara District Rice 250 amilies 22,725

Total 2459 amilies 1,20,925







PHASE-I:

Immediate Relief

In the First Phase, Rehab India Foundation

provided immediate relie material to

the victims o ethnic violence in Assam.

Volunteers o Rehab distributed baby ood

packets, Dress materials, utensils, buckets

and mugs in the camps.

NOTE: Details o Rs. 15 lakhs allotted and

spent in the Phase-I is not mentioned in

the report, since they are under auditing.

PHASE-II

Rehab India Foundation initiated Phase-IIon 1st August 2012 and completed on 18

August, 2012. As part o relie operation,

Rehab volunteers distributed baby ood,

polythene bags, mosquito nets, candles,

buckets, mugs, uel, and clothing. Also,

the organization distributed relie material

during the rescue operation o the people

trapped in the ood hit areas like Kamrup,

Nagaon, Barpeta, Nalbari and Goalpara.

PHASE-III Rehab India Foundation started Phase-

III on 19 Aug and continued till 28th

September 2012. During this phase,

the Foundation distributed baby clothes,

clothes or women, attar and surma on the

eve o Eid-ul-Fitr spending Rs. 564,900

one single day. This phase beneftted more

than 3 lakh people living in 129 relie

camps in Kokrajhar, Chirang Barpeta and

Bongaigaon.

Later, in the same phase, Rehab India

Foundation distributed relie material worth

Rs. 1409050. Team Rehab Distributed

Baby Food Items, Blouse and plates in 95relie camps located in Assam.

PHASE –IV Despite the harsh and orbidding weather,

a team o volunteers reached the reugee

camps o Chirang and Bogaigaon and

distributed relie material among 8,330

victims. The Foundation distributed utensils,

baby ood and clothes or ladies in 8

reugee camps o Districts Chirang and

Bongaigaon.

Later, in the same phase the Foundation

distributed T-Shirts or men, lehengas/

nighties or ladies and children’s clothes

worth Rs. 2,176,401 in 4 Districts;

Chirang, Dhubri, Kokrajhar and Barpeta.

In Chirang, relie materials were distributed

in 10 relie camps o Muzabari, in

Dhubri - 16 relie camps in Bilasipara

and 16 relie camps located in Raniganj.

In Kokrajhar District, reugees in 7 relie

camps o Sri Rampur Gram Panchayat,

one relie camp o Tamarhath, sevenrelie camps o Gouwripur beneftted. In

Barpeta, assistance was given in one camp

o Barpeta and 14 Camps o Sharnarthi

Chhatri Binamulia Aabasik Pathdan and

Shibir.

Items Distributed Units

Baby Food or Inants 12000

Packets or 6000 Inants

Gents Garments (Lungi & T-Shirts) 35,483

Ladies Garments (sari, blouse, petticoat and churidar/maxi) 33,411

Kids Garments (hal pants, T-shirts and rocks) 22,399

Buckets with Lid or storage o Drinking

Water 24,434

Food Plates 24,434

SL NO DESCRIPTION PHASES TOTAL

I & II III IV

1 MATERIALS DISTRIBUTED 903565 1635808 3902310 6441683

2 SURVEY EXPENDITURE 110999 76451 0 1874503 TRANSPORTATION CHARGES 101508 75082 103514 280104

4 FOOD EXPENSES 44261 33390 81439 159090

5 TRAVELLING EXPENDITURE 273664 98148 104827 476639

6 PURCHASE EXPENSES 0 56800 156990 213790

7 LEGAL AID 0 47917 0 47917

TOTAL 1433997 2023596 4349080 7,806,673

Relief & rehabilitation in riot hit areas

PHASE-I

Items Units Amount Spent Benefciaries

Survey Rs. 45000 129 camps in Assam

Baby Food Packs 3000 units Rs. 58000 3000 Inants

Polythene Bags 3000 pcs. Rs. 75000 3000 Families

Mosquito Nets 2000 units Rs. 196000 2000 Families

Candles 3000 units Rs. 10000 3000 Families

Buckets & Mugs 2000 pairs Rs. 92000 2000 Families

Fire Wood 200 quintals Collected 1000 Families

Old Clothes 5000 units Collected 5000 People

Distribution & Purchase

Expenditure Rs. 100000

Total Cost Rs. 576000 PHASE-II

Items Distributed Units Amount Spent Benefciaries

New Sarees 1450 units Rs. 234900 1450 women

Kids Wear 3500 units Rs. 238000 3500 kids

Itar 1000 units Collected 1000 amilies

Surma 1000 units Collected 1000 amilies

Purchase & Distribution Rs. 92000

Total Rs. 564900 PHASE-III

Items Distributed Units Amount per unit Total Amount

Baby Food 7445 20 148900

Blouse 26550 25 663750

Plates 19880 30 596400

Total 53875 1409050 PHASE-III

Districts Panchayats Baby Food Blouses Plates Expenditure or Expenditure Expenditure Total Amount Benefciaries

Distribution Distribution Distribution Baby Food or Blouses or Plates

Kokrajhar Tamarhat 1822 8082 5042 36440 202050 151260 389750 5042

Kusaigaon 2008 10445 7746 40160 261125 232380 533665 7746

Sri Rampur 264 1194 689 5280 29850 20670 55800 686

Dubri Bilaspara 910 2344 2344 18200 58600 70320 147120 2344

Gowripur 583 1507 1346 11660 37675 40380 89715 1346

Bilaspara-II 464 1044 1042 9280 26100 31260 66640 1042

Chirang Chirang 774 950 884 15480 23750 26520 65750 884

Bongaigaon Bongaigaon 620 984 787 12400 24600 23610 60610 787

Total 7445x20 26550x25 19880x30 148900 663750 596400 1409050 19880

=148900 =663750 =596400 PHASE-IV



Rehab India Foundation distributed 7773

Qurbani Food Kits among 45585 poor and

needy people o 65 villages temporarily

sheltered at reugee camps o Assam

during the estival o Eid-al-Adha.

For this noble activity, donors across thecountry joined hands and oered their

share o Qurbani to Rehab Qurbani Food

Distribution Programme 2012.

Rehab India Foundation regularly extends

fnancial support to conduct legal awareness

programme to enable victims o ethnic

clashes and natural calamity. Since

July, 2012, Rehab has been providing

counseling support to the victims to make

them aware o their legal rights as an

individual and as a citizen o India. They are

assisted to raise their voice within the rame

work o our legal and constitutional system.

It was shocking to realise the level o mental

submission and predominant pessimism o

the victims o ethnic cleansing. Regretullymost o them hardly nurture any dream or

uture. Recognizing the need to impart legal

aid to victims, Rehab team travelled to the

reugee camps and collected inormation o

death, injuries and loss o properties.

Qurbani Food Kits Distribution

Programme

Legal Aid

Rehab India Foundation initiated Mobile

Medical Unit for marginalised and neglected

people of Assam.

Chie o the Day, Dilip Bora, Gana Adhikar Daily Editor and Proessor o

Guwahati University inaugurated Rehab’s Mobile Medical Unit in Assam or

providing emergency medical support to riot hit victims residing in Relie

Camps. Initial cost o the project was rupees 10.14 lakhs.

Abu Bashar, Vice President o Rehab India Foundation told that the aim o this

well equipped Mobile Medical Unit with qualifed Doctor and Nurse is to reach

to the unreached people whom medical acility is not available.

On Jan 9th 2013, Heman Nath, M.B.B.S doctor o Hekra P.H.C inaugurated

the service at Bidiyanagar o Kamrup District Assam and provided medical

relie to 225 ateul community people o natural calamity and victims o BTAD

violence.

January 2013 onwards, Rehab has been providing consultation, blood

sampling and distribution o ree medicines to the reugees o three districts

mainly Chirang, Kokrajhar and Goalpara. 1388 patients were attended in

January, 1330 in February and 677 patients got medical support in March.

Mobile Medical Unit

Victims were counseled and advised

or proper documentation o permanent

houses so that they can be rehabilitated

under proper security. People were guided

to keep record o demolished religious

buildings so that it could be rebuilt or

compensated by the government through

legal means.

Advocates who are associated with the

Rehab met with government ofcials and

demanded the punishment o culprits

under law.

E. Abubacker, Chairman o Rehab India

Foundation said, “Rehab Family is highly

thankul to all our Donors and Supporters

who were actively involved in making this

program successul as it was done in the

last year.” To add to it, he also extended

his gratitude towards the volunteers who

worked hard during the estival to help the

ellow citizens.

The renzy o a brutal sky

Has ended.

Green waves ripple

Through the restive elds.

White fowers o the sugarcane

Pierce the inky sky

As autumn whispers —

Every poem has its season.

With every shat o light —

Amazement.

With passion —

Words awaken.

Poem by (late) amous Assamese poet Hiren Bhattacharjya

Poem Title: October Landscape

Translation rom Assamese o this poem was made by

Uddipana Goswami



Rehab India Foundation“The uture o India lies in its villages.” Mahatma Gandhi

Changing lives



Rehab India Foundation

is a non-proft charity

and mission established

for community and area

specifc socio-economic

and educational

development of the

deprived communities of

India.

People rom dierent parts o the country

with years o proessional experience,

vision & commitment are behind this

ground-breaking endeavour.

Founded and registered on 17th March

2008, Rehab India Foundation has been

working or the empowerment o thedowntrodden and other neglected groups.

It has been running multiple programs

successully in Assam, Delhi, West Bengal,

U.P., Bihar, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil

Nadu.

At Rehab, we envision an India where all

children have the opportunity to learn,

grow, and thrive. We believe that Rehab

has the team and patience to make this

vision a reality.

Rehab India

Foundation

Board of trustees Rehab India Foundation

E. Abubacker Chairman

Pro. Muhammed Sulaiman, Kanpur, UP Vice Chairman

O.M.A. Salam, Kerala Gen.Secretary

Advocate Hafz Rashid Ahmed Choudhury, Guwahati Secretary

Dr. Zaarul Islam Khan, Editor, Milli Gazette, New Delhi Trustee

K. M Ashra, Advocate, Kerala Trustee

A. Sayeed, Kerala TrusteeM. K. Faizy, Kerala Trustee

Bhavani. P Mohan, Advocate, Tamil Nadu Trustee

Dr. Haseena Hashiya, Proessor, Jamia Millia, Delhi Trustee

K.S.M. Ibrahim, Chennai Trustee

Mehrunnisa Khan, Jaipur, Rajasthan Trustee

Asel Chandrankandy, Bangalore Trustee

Abdul Wahid Sait, Bangalore Trustee



T h e P i p e l i n e

o f l i f e

Education

Health Care

Clean Water

Disaster Management

Supporting livelihood

Support

Community life

Making spaces

suitable or

study

Water Supply

Systems

Reugee

Problem

Training

Programmes

Sharing

Cultivation Ideas

Mother

& Child

Immunisation

& Check-ups

Equipments or

running tuition

centres

Water

Purifcation

Floods/Tsunami

Sel-Help

Groups

Community

Organisations

Promoting

Agriculture

Medical

Equipment

Health

Awareness

Tuition

Centres

Water Wells

Human Rights

Microfnance

Live

independently

Construction &

Rehabilitation

Care

Programmes

Training teachers

Sanitation

Programmes

Food Crisis

Distribution

o Livestock

Strengthening

Communities

Farming

Programmes

Management

training

Community

Mobilisation

School

Food

Shelter Itar and Qurbani

distribution

ClothingBasic Food Medicine



Village Development Programme

In India Village Development has taken

global attention because major chunk of the

population live in rural area. The strategy of

Rehab for rural development mainly focuses

on poverty alleviation, better livelihood

opportunities, provision of basic amenities

and education for all through innovative

programmes in these segments.

Rehab Village Development Programme aims at improving rural lie in an

equitable and sustainable manner, both socially and environmentally, throughbetter access to resources (natural, physical, human, technological and social

capital), and services that enable them to improve their livelihood.

On-going Village development programmes (VDP):

Central ZoneTalera, Rajasthan

Mullah Colony, New Delhi

Mustaabad, Uttar Pradesh

Mandavalli, New Delhi

South ZoneNandavaram, Andhra Pradesh

Nizamudheen Colony, Andhra Pradesh

Holagunda, Andhra Pradesh

Vallinokkam, Tamil Nadu

Sof Nagar, Karnataka

East ZoneHajjipara, West Bengal

Kabilpur, West Bengal

Srikrishna Pur, West Bengal

Dhumpara, West Bengal

Balagacchi, West Bengal

Solva, West Bengal

Mohaldarpara, West Bengal

Kohitpur, West Bengal

Borjumla, West Bengal Akundabaria, West Bengal

North ZoneBansibari Village, Bihar

Bhodutala Chanpi Village, Bihar

Gourhar Village, Uttar Pradesh

Village Development Programme

Economical

Infrastructure

development

Community

CentreEducational

& CultureHealth &

Environment





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2nd Stage, Abul Fazal Enclave

Jamia Nagar, New Delhi-110025

Teleax: 011 29946637

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