Project: Nellore IGP
Location: Andhra Pradesh
Start: 15th October 2006
Finish: 15th December 2007
Donors: ADRA Germany, ADRA South Korea, Aktion Deutschland Hilft & Private Donors
Budget: $ 140,000 USD
Beneficiaries: 642 families, 5 Villages.

Objectives: Access to additional source of income, child care, and first aid services.

Activities: Construction of multipurpose community centers, providing training and support for first aid service, pre primary education and nutritional support to small children

Expected Outcomes: Functional multipurpose community centres with child care centres, first aid stations, and workshop places, strengthened village development committees, trained first aid helpers are offering first aid services to the community and trained ladies in sea shell crafts and fish and prawn pickle making are producing, packaging and selling their livelihood products.

Project: Post Tsunami Health Education & Livelihood Promotion (HELP)
Location: Tamil Nadu
Start: 1st May 2006
Finish: 30th April 2009
Donors: ADRA International, Private Donors

Budget: $ 1.36million USD

Beneficiaries: 15,382

Objectives: To improve the livelihood, health, and educational status of most poor and vulnerable tsunami-affected community members in Tamil Nadu, India.

Activities: COMPONENT ONE: Livelihood Restoration and Development.

1. Two villages will have deep bore wells installed ensuring continuous irrigation for the tsunami affected agricultural lands to raise the crops in 150 acres of land covering the population of at least 250 marginal farmers.

2. Increasing the efficiency of farming in the target villages with the assistance of seeds through seed banks, and seedlings by gradually applying SRI (Systemic Rice Intensification) techniques, composting, and crop diversification.

3.  One agricultural tsunami affected village will be benefited by involving the community in pond fishing (aquaculture) by 40 self-help group women in the village.

4. Diversified small-scale enterprises for 9 agricultural and livestock related livelihoods are available in the villages augmenting the village economy.

5. 1,200 self-help group women members and 300 male farmers will have sustained access to micro-credit services through internal lending scheme and bank linkages that are sufficient and feasible to meet their entrepreneurial business needs.

COMPONENT TWO: Assistance in Health, Education and Development (AHEAD).

1. Population of 3,600 in 12 villages and 2,411 children from 11 primary and secondary schools will have access to safe drinking water and sanitation facilities.

2. Target people have improved understanding, attitudes, and practices to utilize the provided water and sanitation facilities.

3. Target beneficiaries (adults and adolescents 13 to 45 years) in 15 villages will have enabling environment through improved understanding, attitudes, and practices to lead a healthy lifestyle free from unwanted health outcomes and behavior, including HIV/AIDS.

4. 15 disaster mitigation/preparedness committees established, trained, and functioning in 15 target villages to mitigate the effects of future natural disasters.

Outcomes: To alleviate the lives of the tsunami victims in the state of Tamil Nadu

Project: Health is Wealth
Location: Mizoram, Andhra Pradesh, Mizoram and Delhi
Start: 5th March 2007
Finish: 5th December 2007
Donors: ADRA International, Private Donors
Budget: $ 40,134 USD
Beneficiaries: 97,279 people, 420 Villages

Objectives: Health education on post partum infection prevention, measles vaccination, HIV AIDS, and malaria prevention. Post partum infection and malaria prevention, measles immunization.

Activities: Health education sessions, immunization camps, medical checkups and medicine support, distribution of insecticide treated nets, and sanitary napkins, organizing health fairs, printing and distributing HIV/AIDS awareness charts.

Expected Outcomes: Target population practice home based prevention and care methods of malaria prevention, and post partum infection prevention, measles and HIV AIDS. Infants of project area are immunized with measles vaccine. Pregnant and lactating mothers have been supported for accessing health facilities and are also provided medicinal support. Target population is aware about appropriate facility centers to address their health needs.

Project: Water, Environment & Sanitation with Medical Support (WES-MED)
Location: Little Andaman, Andaman & Nicobar Islands
Start: 1st July 2007
Finish: 30th June 2009
Donors: ADRA Czech, Private Donors
Budget: $ 425,801 USD
Beneficiaries: 14,000 people and 900 families, 1 panchayat

Objectives: Improving the living and health conditions and hygiene habits of people through ensuring their access to sufficient quantity of water for personal and domestic hygiene, and equitable access to primary health care services.

Activities: Installing and maintaining a water supply system, rehabilitating bore wells, forming and strengthening water management committees, renovating primary health sub centers, placing a medical doctor and two nurses at Primary Health Center Hut Bay, ensuring full and close collaboration with Department of Health Services, conducting hygiene awareness programs in the project area following PHAST approach.

Expected Outcomes: Community has adequate water sourcing, storage and distribution capacity at its transitional shelter facilities, the Public Health Centers and sub-centers in Little Andaman Island are attending people’s medical needs, community has improved knowledge, attitudes and practice in personal hygiene, safe domestic water usage, and waste management.

Project: Ambulance for Sri Lankan Refugees
Location: Tamil Nadu
Start: December 2006
Finish: n/a
Donors: ADRA Netherlands, ADRA Germany
Budget: € 14,815 EURO
Beneficiaries: 8,055

Objectives: To ensure improved access to emergency transportation facilities within the target refugee camps for Sri Lankan refugees.

Activities:

1. Provision of Emergency Transportation - The project will support essential transfers that are needed to transport medical emergency cases from Mandapam camp to the district hospital in Ramanathapuram which is 47 km away from the camp. This will be done by donating an emergency vehicle to the Mandapam Camp authority.
   ADRA India will make necessary arrangements with the government so that emergency patients are transported to the hospital free of cost. The emergency transportation will be arranged only for refugees living at Mandapam camp, and with a proper referral made by medical personnel on duty at the camp clinic.
   As far as possible, advance approval will be provided by camp assistants who are hired by the project for making emergency transportation arrangements. Detailed transportation records (e.g., date, time, name of patients, reasons for referral, kilometers used, name of driver, etc.) will be maintained by both the government camp authorities under the supervision of the camp assistants.
   Emergency patients thus transported will be requested to submit the evidence of being admitted at the hospital upon discharge from the hospital (e.g., doctor’s prescription).

2. Picking up the Refugees reaching Arichalmunai - Apart from that the refugees reaching the Indian coast in Arrichal munai will also be transported to the police quarantine camp in Dhanuskodi and then to Mandapam Camp. This will enable tired and some sick refugees to be transported to Mandapam camp under much better condition.

3. Governments Role - The government has assured to the responsibility of maintaining the donated emergency vehicle by appointing a driver, paying for the fuel, and talking care of maintenance. All refugee families at Mandapam camp thus will have free emergency transport to the tertiary care facilities in case of emergencies.

Outcomes:

1. At least 1,611 refugee families at Mandapam entry camp has emergency access to the tertiary care medical facilities.

2. All the refugees who will be arriving to India will have ensured transportation facilities from the arrival point till the camps which is 35 km away.