Volunteer : Sumanto Mohanty
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Background
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A
patient and cool worker, Sumanto Mohanty served the
cyclone-affected with a sense of commitment. He made a dent moving with
hordes of people cleaning the environment and later, retrieving
irrigation infrastructure through “food for work” programs. |
Education
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Post Graduate
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Motivation
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After his University
education Sumanto Mohanty got involved in literacy evaluation
research, and that was how he came to know the vast and varied spheres
of social work.
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Activities
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- Community
volunteers training on village level contingency planning for Disaster
preparedness
- Community level
awareness building on community based disaster preparedness (CBDP)
- Disaster
Management Teams (DMT) formation at the village level.
- Follow ups of the
previous trainings and village level information updating.
- Forming
village task forces and training these task forces on skills and
methods of evacuation, rescue, relief management and contingency
planning components.
- Training
community level volunteers to take on lead roles in these task forces.
- Helping
with rescue and rehabilitation operations in the Erasama block during
the July 2001 floods.
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