Past Relief Activities

The organized relief work was started by our GREAT Master Late DEBABRATA Gupta, along with his colleague Prabir Dutta in 1980. Who drew inspiration for their humanitarian services from our forefathers.

The Master used to say, ‘If God can be worshiped in an image, can He not be worshiped in a living person?’

So we literally transformed relief and rehabilitation into acts of worship. It is pleasing to note that there are many other organizations inspired by our work, started conducting relief operations in India today.

In the nineteenth century, when we started its first relief work, there were hardly any other organized services in the field. Disaster management, primary relief is now considered as a small part of relief—prompt and efficient rescue and relief, socioeconomic and psychological rehabilitation of the victims are all important priorities. Incorporation of efficient developmental models and environmental safeguards in the rehabilitation program are also important issues. Sabuj Sangha tries to realistically address many of these issues in its relief and rehabilitation programs.

Basic Approach

To date Sabuj Sangha have conducted several relief works in India, for a variety of causes as famines, floods, fires, epidemics, cyclones, tornadoes, earthquakes, landslides and droughts. Relief works for evacuees and refugees were carried out on a very large scale during some of the worst natural calamities. Apart from these, small relief works are conducted throughout the year by us wherever local needs arise. After helping people to survive the devastating calamities caused by nature and human folly, the movement is often faced with the urgency of rehabilitating the suffering people.