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150 route de Ferney, P.O. Box 2100 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland Tel: 41 22 791 6033 Fax: 41 22 791 6506 Appeal E-mail: [email protected] Coordinating Office India Assistance to Flood Affected ASIN71 Appeal Target: US$ 693,600 Balance Requested from ACT Alliance: US$ 645,208 Geneva, 9 July 2007 Dear Colleagues, Heavy rains in different parts of southern and western India have created havoc in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Gujarat. Monsoons coupled with a depression over the Bay of Bengal and a subsequent depression over Gujarat have led to heavy rains causing floods in these states. In a large part of these states, electricity supplies have been badly affected and hand pumps/wells have been contaminated. Standing crops have been destroyed. The sources of livelihood of people have been adversely affected and there is large scale loss of personal and public property. People belonging to marginalized sections are the worst off with few coping mechanisms. The living conditions in the affected areas and relief camps are appalling and people lack basic necessities. Currently the state governments are struggling to cope with the situation. ACT members Churches Auxiliary for Social Action (CASA) and United Evangelical Lutheran Church in India (UELCI) are assisting the most vulnerable of the affected in Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Gujarat through the provision of emergency relief food and non-food items, temporary shelter and rehabilitation in the form of repairs to houses and schools. ACT member the Lutheran World Service India (LWSI) is presently not planning to respond in the areas mentioned above but, may respond to a future flood emergency during the current monsoon season. ACT is a global alliance of churches and related agencies working to save lives and support communities in emergencies worldwide. The ACT Coordinating Office is based with the World Council of Churches (WCC) and The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) in Switzerland. India – Floods 2 ASIN71 Appeal Project Completion Date: CASA - 31 December 2007 UELCI - 31 October 2007 Reporting Schedule Reports due ACT CO Interim narrative & financial reports Final narrative & financial reports Audit CASA 31 October 2007 29 February 2008 31 March 2008 UELCI N/A 31 December 2007 31 January 2008 Summary of Appeal Targets, Pledges/Contributions Received and Balance Requested CASA UELCI Total Target US$ Total Targets 368,250 325,350 693,600 Less: Pledges/Contr Recd 48,392 0 48,392 Balance Requested from ACT Alliance 319,858 325,350 645,208 Please kindly send your contributions to either of the following ACT bank accounts: US dollar Account Number - 240-432629.60A IBAN No: CH46 0024 0240 4326 2960A Euro Euro Bank Account Number - 240-432629.50Z IBAN No: CH84 0024 0240 4326 2950Z Account Name: ACT - Action by Churches Together UBS AG 8, rue du Rhône P.O. Box 2600 1211 Geneva 4, SWITZERLAND Swift address: UBSW CHZH12A Please also inform the Finance Officer Jessie Kgoroeadira ([email protected]) and the Programme Officer Michelle Yonetani ([email protected]) of all pledges/contributions and transfers, including funds sent direct to the implementers, now that the Pledge Form is no longer attached to the Appeal. We would appreciate being informed of any intent to submit applications for EU, USAID and/or other back donor funding and the subsequent results. We thank you in advance for your kind cooperation. For further information please contact: Director, John Nduna (phone +41 22 791 6033 or mobile phone + 41 79 203 6055) or ACT Program Officer, Michelle Yonetani (phone +41 22 791 6035 or mobile phone +41 79 285 2916) ACT Web Site address: http://www.act-intl.org John Nduna Director, ACT Co-ordinating Office India – Floods 3 ASIN71 Appeal I. REQUESTING ACT MEMBERS INFORMATION • Church’s Auxiliary for Social Action (CASA) • United Evangelical Lutheran Church in India (UELCI) II. IMPLEMENTING ACT MEMBERS & PARTNER INFORMATION a) CASA CASA is registered as a Society under the Societies’ Registration Act XXI of 1860. Its members consist of 24 Protestant and Orthodox Churches in India. As the Related Agency of the National Council of Churches in India, CASA is mandated to do relief work on behalf of all the Protestant Churches. CASA has a history of responding to emergencies and disasters since 1947 and is mandated to work in a purely secular manner in all spheres of its programme activities including humanitarian assistance programmes. CASA’s assistance is provided on a humanitarian needs basis without discrimination according to caste, language, religion, ethnic origin or political affiliation. Priority is given to families belonging to marginalized castes and tribes, female headed households, the elderly and infirm and other people of socio- economically low levels. Operating on an all-India basis, CASA responds to 60-70 emergencies – both natural and man-made – per year. CASA has a decentralised disaster preparedness plan. This system has been created through the establishment of a wider and more effective infrastructure network and capacity building programme for CASA staff, representatives of Churches, and identified partner organisations, both at the disaster management and grassroots level, who can respond to a call for assistance at short notice. This network is backed by relief materials purchased and pre-stocked at CASA’s warehouses at strategic locations throughout the country. CASA will directly implement its part of the appeal programme, with the assistance of partner organisations and the church network in the response locations. Partners in Andhra Pradesh: - Andhra Pradesh Council of Churches - CSI Diocese of Rayalaseema - CSI Diocese of Nandyal - Community Development Society (CDS) - Brethren Institute for Rural Development (BIRD) Partners in Kerala: - CSI Diocese of North Kerala - Marthoma Church (Kollam -Trivandrum Diocese) - Kerala Council of Churches Partners in Karnataka: - CSI Diocese of North Karnataka - Methodist Church in India Partners in Maharashtra: - Hindustani Covenant Church, Pune - CNI Kolhapur Diocese - CNI Diocese of Nagapur - Jivan Vikas Sanstha, Amravati Partners in Gujarat: - CNI Gujarat Diocese, Ahmedabad - Methodist Church in India, Vadodara India – Floods 4 ASIN71 Appeal b) UELCI THE UNITED EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN INDIA (UELCI) is a communion of eleven member churches from the Lutheran churches in India. The communion was originally founded in 1926 as the Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India, and was a national member of the Lutheran World Federation from 1948. It became known as UELCI with a change of its constitution in 1975. The Indian Lutheran communion is composed predominantly of ‘dalits’ (outcast people in the caste system) and ‘adivasis’ (indigenous or tribal people). The Division of Social Action (DSA), formed in 1978, is the emergency and development department of the UELCI and coordinates and supports the emergency and development operations both for and/or on behalf of its member churches and partners. Since that time, UELCI has been involved in emergency response and development with its member churches, first with the support of the LWF emergency desk, and later with ACT International. UELCI is committed to working amongst the poor and the marginalised with a participatory methodology. With respect to emergency response, UELCI has focused its operations on the southern states of India. Requests for support for smaller emergencies from its member churches in the northern and north-eastern states of the country are usually referred to Lutheran World Service India (LWSI), also an ACT member and partner of UELCI. In the case of major emergencies, the ACT members discuss how to share coverage of the affected areas. It is currently involved in the implementation of the ACT Appeals ASRE51 (tsunami- to 31 December 2007) and has completed implementation of the ASIN62 floods response from 2006. Implementing Partners (UELCI member churches) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church (AELC): The AELC, with its 800,000 members most of which are located in rural villages located along 500 miles of the east coast of India in the state of Andhra Pradesh. The major concern of the church is to uplift the poor in general, and the Dalits (untouchables) and tribals in particular who are discriminated against. The traditionally low status of women and unemployed are a major concern of the church. Major activities of the church include pastoral and evangelistic ministries, education (schools, vocational training), theological and parish education, Diakonal ministries (ashrams, hostels, orphanages), women’s work, community development projects. Church institutions include: 2 Junior colleges, 2 degree colleges, 2 colleges of education, 1 college of law, 18 secondary schools, 5 elementary schools, 5 English medium schools, 1 theological college 6 hospitals, 2 nursing schools, 1 physiotherapy degree college, 14 hostels, and 1 orphanage. The church has many years of experience of working with communities in their localities in both long term community development and emergency work. In emergency situations, the local churches mobilize their pastors and local volunteers from their congregations, who work with the staff of the Development Desk of the AELC. Assistance is given to affected communities according to humanitarian principles, without discrimination according to caste, gender, religion or ethnicity, and without proselytisation. South Andhra Lutheran Church ( SALC ): SALC has 49,000 members,

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