Programmes / Activities

» Relief and Rehabilitation

HMI responds to both man made and natural disasters. As part of this relief and rehabilitation programmes were organized during the times of communal riots in Hyderabad. As Tsunami was a major natural disaster, in order to rehabilitate the Tsunami survivors a major relief and rehabilitation project was undertaken. The aim of this project was to promote peace and interfaith relations among the tsunami survivors through livelihood, alternative livelihood, infrastructure development, trauma counseling, and conflict transformation programs. The areas covered were Nellore district in the state of Andhra Pradesh and Nagapattinam district in Tamil Nadu.

Relief Work in view of communal clashes and curfew in Hyderabad

Hyderabad city witnessed communal clashes in the last week of March 2010. This was subsequently followed by a ten day long curfew in Old City of Hyderabad, apart from a few areas in the new city . HMI's Community Development (CD) team members visited its project areas at Sultan Shahi, Shanker Nagar and Chandrayangutta and organized meetings with community people. As an outcome of the above meetings, CD team initiated and organized relief activities at its project areas. This was done with the kind contribution from CD team's projects and HMI staff. 166 Hindu and Muslim families were given relief packs with ten essential food commodities like rice, dal, oil, etc.