What did NGOs do in the Bangladesh flood?
The first thing most of the NGOs did was to arrange food and water to the flood affected people in Bangladesh in 1988 and 1998 floods. They also managed to setup some sort of temporary shelters for the flood displaced population with the help of international agencies such as ICRC and Oxfam. I got the following from internet search: There are about 22000 local NGOs and 150 foreign NGOs working in Bangladesh now. Most of the NGOs extend post-flood credit-services to the poor people so that they can stand on their own feet within shortest possible time by restarting agricultural and business activities those were damaged due to flooding or cyclone. The NGO’s of Bangladesh encourages to use traditional methods of flood preparedness, as follows: 1. Banana plantation and bamboo propagation to be used to make rafts for movement and shelter during floods, 2. Catkins (fast growing tree) growing in sandy char lands for controlling flood and containing deposits of alluvial soil 3. Salinity toler
