EHA

EHA immediately responded with relief operations after a major earthquake devastated Kashmir in October 2005. After the emergency relief process, EHA entered upon a phase of rehabilitation with livelihood restoration and disaster risk reduction components.

The Jammu and Kashmir Earthquake rehabilitation project phase III was a 2 year (2007 – 2009) project of Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR) cum Reproductive Child Health (RCH) program. The project operated in the Anantnag, Baramulla and Srinagar districts of Kashmir valley and Jammu of J&K state. The focus of the project was to create awareness and building capacity of the majority Kashmiri community as well as the marginalised Gujars and Bakarwaals to be healthy and disaster resilient in the event of a catastrophe. The situation in Jammu and Kashmir during the crucial second year of the project was marked by inter religious provocations and subsequent violent reprisals.

YEAR 2009
Major Activities:

• Dai Training for women from the target area
• RCH training for nurses and MPHW
• Awareness programs on health, hygiene & sanitation, disaster risk and climate change.
• Basic Life Support trainings
• Hospital Waste management Workshop
• Medical camps and mobile clinics
• Handicraft – wood & metal work training, for income generation

Key Accomplishments: As part of the program

• 85 persons including Doctors, Nurses, Multi Purpose Health Workers  from Srinagar and Anantnag  districts attended the Life Saving and First Aid Training.
• 16 women from the intervention villages attended the RCH training for Traditional birth attendants.
• RCH Mobile Clinics were conducted in 5 villages of 3 blocks in Anantnag and 519 patients treated
• Medical camps were conducted in Baramulla, Arwani, Barariangan.
• 975 people were given teachings on personal hygiene, health and sanitation.
• 790 students, community members and Disaster Management Committee attended the awareness programs.
• Disaster Risk Reduction lessons were taught to more than 2000 people in 16 villages and 11 DMCs were formed. 140 First Kits were given to DMC members and others.
• 20 members of the partner NGO, SPEAK were trained in Disaster Risk Reduction.