Candles and match boxes were also provided to the affected families. On the 6th July night about 100 young volunteers were mobilized who worked hard putting their lives in danger and bonded the embankment that was broken at Rajghat where the flood water of river Subarnarekha was elevated to its maximum.

On the morning of the 7th of July, SHG members in the area immediately stepped into the distribution of relief material. A group of women set out along with a cycle trolley and bags of chuda and gud (pressed rice and jaggery). One of the villages, Tikayatpur, was completely cut off from all the other villages. The women, wading through waist deep water with sacks of dry food on their heads, ensured that the food reached to the families that were worst hit by the flood. In the first 72 hours of the flood (7th – 9th of July), the entire area was inaccessible. The SHG members (part of a women’s movement called Mahila Shanti Sena), Unnayan and Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar (KIIT University) were the three institutions working together in a tripartite partnership to ensure that the relief material reached to the affected families. On the first morning after the flood, the MSS set up community kitchens at 6 different villages. Unnayan distributed relief material to 1004 families in the fir st 72 hours after the flood.