Hyderabad floods—NGOs, individuals rise to clean up city, help the affected

By Syed Khaled Shahbaaz Twelve days after rains rattled Hyderabad, flood waters peaking as high as 12 feet in some areas have subsided, partially restoring life even as normalcy hangs in balance. While the State government’s immediate reaction to floods by sanctioning ex-gratia and 10,000 rupees to each affected family was a sigh of relief, it was the philanthropy and altruism of several charities, social welfare organizations and good Samaritans that facilitated hope among the distressed after the disaster.
Mosques serve as control rooms From repurposing Masjids as Command and Control centres for relief ops to literally dirtying hands while clearing out knee-deep slush; from rebuilding homes to commissioning repairs of totalled automobiles; from identifying needy families to proposing solutions to flooding problems; charities have shown the way forward to families whose life savings, confidence and determination washed away.
GHMC rescuing people including infants and children women from flood-affected Hafiz Baba Nagar following heavy rain in Hyderabad. Photo: Style Photo Service Tableeghi Jamaat chips in The Tableeghi Jamaat which was in the eye of the storm during the Coronavirus lockdown lead by example, with volunteers selflessly working on the ground, covering their faces while dodging photo requests by journalists.
By the way, this is perhaps for the first time that Tableeghi Jamaat has undertaken rehabilitation work.  Its unwritten charter has never allowed it members to do anything else but to invite Muslims to mosques and persuade them to take re-correction course.
JIH Hyderabad Neighbourhood people, irrespective of religious identity, had no words to thank them for the efforts The Jamaat e Islami Hind that dispatched volunteers to rescue the stranded and distributed daily life-running kits.  Its workforce took care of providing ration kits in the submerged areas. The Students Islamic Organization (SIO) distributed food in more than a dozen localities with over 500 volunteers on the lanes and by-lanes.