Visit to Villages in Gokak taluq, 14th August...

(Reg. No: RJN-4-00117-2017-18) Uttara Karnataka Snehaloka (UKSL) Trust ®

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Date: 31-Aug-2019 Ref No: UKSL/0831/2019-20

# 896/11B, 1st Floor, 12th Cross, Near Mahalakshmi Layout Entrance,

West of Chord Road, Bengaluru- 560 086, Karnataka. Phone #: +91-80-2319-4960 Mobile #: +91-98456-89272

URL: www.uksl.org Email: [email protected]

Visit to Villages in Gokak taluq, 14th August

2019, Caring for the needy around us

Parts of Belagavi district, sugar belt of north Karnataka, were devastated by heavy rains (cloud

burst) and unprecedented floods during July/August 2019. It’s our bounded duty, as most of us

come from North Karnataka, to rush to the help of affected people and cattle. We appealed to

members and friends for contributions. Within 4 days of time we could able to mobilize around

4 lakhs!!

Observing the TV, Newspaper reports and Ground reports we thought of visiting the severely

affected areas of Belagavi district. But approach roads were either washed away by gushing

floods or they were water clogged!! We purchased 500 tarpaulins, 1000 printed light weight

blankets and transported them to our well-wisher Mr and Mrs. Rekha Mallikarjun Kori’s house in

Hubballi. Sarees and Towels of 500 each were procured from Gadag and sent to the same

place. Trust president Mr.Gangadhar Wali, life members Mr. Lingaraj Managuli, Mr. Dheerendra

Bilagi, Mr. Praveen Hebbalkar and Mr. Mahantesh Veerapur started their journey on a hired

zoom car on the wee hours on 13.08.2019. Kori couple were waiting to receive the team and

arranged delicious lunch. With properly packing all the material, team was all set to visit the

affected areas for distribution. Life member Mr. Mallikarjun Hosamani and our college friend Mr.

Ravindra Shirolkar joined the relief material distributing team. Thanks to Mr. Prakash Turmari

and Mr. Shashidhar who has offered goods vehicle free of cost to transport the material. All was

set but there is no road connectivity between Dharwad and Saundatti, as the bridge near Inam

Hongal was washed away in the floods of Benni Halla!! Taking a roundabout journey, the team

was able to reach Gokak that night. Unfortunately, relief materials were getting looted in some

villages en route!! So, team decided to take the police protection. Thanks to CPI of Saundatti


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Mr.Muttanna Savargol who deputed two police constables along with us throughout our

distribution activities. A big thanks to him and Karnataka police. Thanks to Mr.Chinnappa

V.Hatti, Narasimha Kulkarni, Basavaraj Beeranatti, Yallappa Duradundi and others who helped

us in identifying the affected areas and the people. Thanks to Mr. Magdum-Preseident Rotary

club Gokak, who made all the arrangements for our lodging and boarding in Gokak. He was kind

enough to accompany us to all the affected areas.

The devastation was beyond anybody’s imagination. People were in dire need of food, good

drinking water, cattle feed, shelter etc. These kinds of flood were never seen in their life time!!

Roads were devastated, houses were submerged in water for many days, cattle were swayed

away or dead, crops were in deep water!! Nature’s fury was at its peak!! Road bridge near

Munavalli was flooded like anything and we could see water marks on the banks up to 12 feet

high!!


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It was quite unfortunate to meet socio economically well to do families of these villages as they

were waiting for relief materials distributed by NGOs like us!! Few days back these people were

feeding others and today on account of natural disaster, they have become bankrupt!! They


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were literally on the roads with no shelter, food and proper clothing’s. Most of them lost their

crop, cattle, house, house hold materials, vehicles or whatever they earned so far in their life!!

It was a tough situation for us to manage the crowd but thanks to the police and the yuva

brigade organizers who made our distribution activities easier than expected.

True to UKSL spirit “Giving is not about just donating… It is about making a Difference”

we executed the task. We felt satisfied by distributing the materials to the needy ones in

whatever small way we could do.

We visited badly affected villages of Gokak Taluq Adibatti, Melavanki, Konnur, Chigadolli and

Kalarkoppa.

We were the first organization to enter these villages as these villages got the approach to the

outside world just a day’s back!! Otherwise they were cut off to outside world for almost a

week!

Thanks to our friend Mr.Subhas Singh Jamadar who coordinated and planned our distribution

program and supporting even during execution. Without which we wouldn’t have executed so

smoothly.

Thanks to driver Mr. Anand who helped us in material distribution. Thanks to all the donors for

your generosity. Our sincere congratulations. Without your whole hearted support, we wouldn’t

have executed this herculean task.

With successfully completing the first phase of distribution of relief materials we returned to

Bengaluru on early morning of 15th August. Though it was quite a hectic journey but was worth

spending our time and energy in helping our people.

Another team along with Mr. Amit Patil of Belagavi visited remote villages like Ugar khurd

(Athani taluq) by train and distributed cattle feed and medicines to the farmers of affected

areas 0n 11th August 2019. Farmers of that areas thanked UKSL from bottom of their heart.


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Some photos of the event.


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We would like to thank all the contributors to this noble cause.

Collections through Instamojo channel

A P SAVANUR Ashok Ugar Bharathi

Abhijit Bindage Ashwin Bharati D Barakol

Abhishek Asif Ulla Chanabasappa

Aditya Nittoor Badarinath Joshi Chandrashekhar Rajagoli

Ajay Someshwar Bahubali Patil Chandrashekhar Uppin

ANAND JOSHI Balachandra B Patil Channabasavanna S

Anand R Jaratarghar Basavaraj Hittinamath Chetan ghatapanadi

Anandgouda Patil Basavaraj Javalagi Chidananda Murthy J M

Anil Basavaraj Patil Devaraj S Barakol

Anilkumar Patil BASAVARAJ Sajjan DINESH ADIGA

Aparna Desai Basaveshwarayya Ganesh Daivajna

Aravind Basu Gangadhar Wali

Aravind S Bhaktaraj Girish Belandur

Arun Rajpurohit Bharat Bommanagpudar Girish G Yelamali

Aruna Bharath R S Girish Kulkarni


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Girish Metgudmatb Jagadish Nadanalli Mahesh Pujar

Girish Pattan Jayateertha Tatti Mahesh Rangaraddi

Girish Pawate Jithendra Bangera Mahesh Rangaraddi

Gopinath K K Prakash Mahesh S Goudar

Govindagouda Kiran kagalkar Mallikarjun

Gurunath KIRAN Nadgir Mallikarjun Hosamani

Gururaj Kishor Daivagna Mallikarjun Khanapuri

Gururaj Kadkol Kishore Revankar MALLIKARJUN KHYADI

Gururaj Kulkarni Kotresh Mallikarjun Moogi

Gururaj Kulkarni Gangavathi Kudchi Family Mallikarjun N Savanur

H. S. Mukunda Kumar Handur Mallikarjun Wali

Hanamantray Baluragi Lingaraj Manikprabhu Savanur

Indudhar K. R. Madhu M Jahagirdar Manjula Kolavi

JAGADEESH B PATIL Mahantesh Benakannavar Manjula Kolavi

Jagadeesh Bangarimath Mahantesh Karadiguddi Manjunath Bhat

Manjunath Burli Prabhu S Savanur Pundalik Satyanaik

Manoj Kumar Jahagirdar Prabhu S Savanur R. Nagaraj

Manoj Patil Prabhu Shitikonda Raghavendra hegde

Mayur K Kamat Pradeep kottalage Raghuraj P Kadkol

Mruttunjay K Prajwal Murthy Raju Patil

Naganagoud. Kanteppagoudra Pramod Vaidya Ramesh Pattanshetti

Nagaraj Kulkarni Pranali Ramprasad D Chigari

Nagaraja Tenginakai Prasanna Nandaragi Rashmi

Nakesh Prashant B Patil Ravi bijapur

Namith p Prashant B Patil Ravindra Noubade

Nataraj Vibhuti Prashant Raikoty s babu

Naveen S Raj Prashanth S RAMA SUBHASHREE

Naveen Savanur Praveen Hebbalkar Sachin R

PARAMESH B M Praveen Pawadshettar Saiprasad Shettar

Paramesh B M Praveen S B Sandeep Junjarwad

Sandeep S Patil Shivakumar Kalyanshettar Suresh Tigadi

Sanjay bhagat Shivanand B. Madli Tahir Sanadi

Sanjay Rajapur Shivaraj Bhusad Tejashwini Chiniwal

Sanjeev Murnal Shridevi Vanaki Ujwal V

Sanjeev Patwari Shrikanth Kalburgi UK Vanita Loka Kitty Group

Santosh Hiremath SHRINIVAS GUDI Umashankar Hugar

Santosh Mane Shrishail Guggari V S Purohit

Santosh Panchabhavi SK Sreekanth Vaibhav Madalagi


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Satish Smita Vaman J Mahale

Satish Popale Sneha Vani N

Satish Suresh Hampiholi Soumya J H Veena

Shambuling shinganahalli Srinath Dhavali Veena sangoji

Sharana kumara ds Sudha Tegginamani Veerendra Sukali

Sharanabasappa Veerapur Suresh Adiga Veeresh G Akki

Sharanu Dambal Suresh Kadati VIJAYAKUMAR KAMMAR

Vijayamahantesh Karpurmath

Vijaykumar S Mathad

Vinay

Vinayak B Mungurwadi

Vipul Kumar

Vishwanath

Vishwanath

Vishweshwari Pattanshetti

WNMurthy

Collection in the UKSL Bank Account

Anand Hiremath Nagaraj Girish Katti

Apoorva Prakash Hosur Jayathirtha G

Arnav Misra Praveen Sidram Manjunath Biratti

Arun Yadwad Rohith Misra Ramesh Subbannavar

Asha Patil Sadanand Girish B Ramagiri

Basavaraj Bhuti Sahankumar KC Chandrashekhar K

Basavaraj Yadwad Sangamesh Vijay Rachappa Kanvi

Bharatesh C Sanjay Sardar Veerangouda Mar

Hari VB Shashidhar Shreedhar R

Kumarswamy P K Shridhar Katgade Koustubh Suresh Dabade

Lakshmi Mahajan Srinivasa Kumbale Somashekhar Gangadhar

Mahesh Maradi Tanvi Misra Jayadevi Hiremath

Manjunath N Tejasvini Humburwadi Anand Hosamani

Manjunath S G Veerangouda BPA Mallikarjun Kori

Mohammad Saddiq Vishwanath Belwa Subhash Hampannavar


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Key take ways from the event:

We at UKSL trust give utmost importance to transparency of financials especially to the funds

collected from all. We have distributed materials purchased from the generous contributions

from you all. Your support will give us confidence to take up such tasks in helping the fellow

Indians who are in dire need of help.

UKSL Trust, Bengaluru thanks all the donors and members who helped directly or indirectly for

organizing this event and making it a great success. We also thank RSS, ABVP, Yuva brigade,

Bajrang Dal office bearers of Hubballi, Gokak for their whole-hearted support in organizing this

event.

In the second and third round of material distribution we are planning to distribute materials

collected by friends and different organisations and items like school bags kits purchased in bulk

(with notebooks, compass box, pen and pencils) very soon.

The next steps: Trustees and life members would like to take up such

society give back initiatives through crowd funding.

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give “

- Winston Churchill

Content Created by: Mr. Gangadhar Wali and Lingaraj Managuli

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