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True Impact Foundation Delivers Critical Flood Relief to Devastated Bihar Families
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News18•24-09-2026, 18:30
True Impact Foundation Delivers Critical Flood Relief to Devastated Bihar Families
- •Bihar's monsoon floods are among the worst in years, affecting nearly five million people and causing at least 20 deaths, with all seven key rivers rising above danger levels.
- •The Ganga river broke all-time high-water records at three gauge stations simultaneously, impacting 22 lakh people across 14 districts.
- •True Impact Foundation, in partnership with Bharat Benevita Foundation, launched an on-ground flood relief initiative, providing a lifeline to families cut off from essential supplies.
- •Relief supplies, including food, medicine, water, and sanitary items, were distributed in Patna and Bhagalpur, impacting over 2,000 lives and supplying 600 solar emergency lights.
- •Volunteers waded through neck-deep water to reach affected homes, highlighting the severe challenges in delivering aid to areas with washed-out roads and submerged houses.
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True Impact Foundation and Bharat Benevita Foundation are distributing ready-to-eat food, grocery kits, medicine kits, rain protection kits, drinking water, sanitary pads, mosquito coils, and mosquito nets in Patna and Bhagalpur districts, along with solar emergency lights, phenyl, and bleaching powder.
Volunteers have had to wade through neck-deep water on foot to reach homes that vehicles cannot access, carefully planning routes around washed-out roads and shifting water levels each day.
True Impact Foundation previously partnered with Bharat Benevita Foundation to support a similar relief effort during the flooding in Assam earlier in the year.
