Standing fund · kits before the water · Guwahati
Every monsoon, somewhere on the Brahmaputra's banks, families will need dry rations, tarpaulin and clean water within days. A bhoral is a granary: this fund packs and pre-stages family kits in godown shelves across three districts between October and May, so that when the water comes the trucks roll the same week — no frantic appeal, no waiting for pledges to clear. Give in the dry months; that is the whole idea.
The shelf count — kits packed, kits staged, kits released — is chalked in the packing hall and printed quarterly. This page makes no appeal during a flood; if you are reading it in a bad week, the kits your neighbours gave last winter are already on the trucks.
For People who would rather give in March than panic in July · Volunteers for the packing weekends · Companies whose CSR wants kits on shelves, not banners in water
These four are promises this page makes on your behalf. Keep them or change them — they are not decoration.
Ways to give or join
Every figure is last packing season's actual bill: rice, dal, salt, oil and jaggery at wholesale, tarpaulin and rope by the bale, chlorine tablets and ORS by the carton, the godown's rent split across its shelves. Relief bought in a flood week costs half again as much and arrives late — pre-staging is not a slogan, it is a discount.
One-time
Rice, dal, oil, salt, jaggery, ORS, chlorine tablets, matches and a wick lamp — a family of five's dry fortnight, packed to the standing list, shelved until the river decides.
One-time
A heavy tarpaulin, rope and a dozen sandbag sacks — the difference between a wet week and a roof of sorts. Staged beside the ration kits, released with them.
Monthly
Three district godowns' rent and keeping — dry floors, rat-proof racks, a keeper who counts. The dullest card on this page, and the one the whole design stands on.
Volunteer
Weighing, sewing sacks, stencilling the kit list, stacking to the keeper's exacting standards. One Saturday a month through the dry season; the monsoon's work is done sweating in December.
In kind
Wholesale-packed rice, dal, oil and salt from traders and mills — accepted by the sack at the packing hall against the standing list, weighed and entered while your man watches.
Pick the way you want to help and it lands in the form below. Picking another replaces it — this page records one intention at a time, not a basket. NO MONEY MOVES ON THIS PAGE: nothing is charged, deducted or collected here, and how giving actually happens is written under the form.
On the ground
No flood-water photography at all — this fund's entire point is the work done before, and its gallery keeps that discipline. These frames are placeholders for your own packing hall and godowns in the dry months.
How giving actually happens
Paste the trust's bank account name, number and IFSC here, and the UPI ID if you use one — exactly as the bank has them. State plainly that the fund runs no street or door-to-door cash collections, in flood weeks or ever.
Words you have permission to print
A godown keeper, a packing volunteer or a district official who has taken delivery, in their own words, with their name — collected with written permission. Never a flood-affected family quoted in their worst week.
Your honest record
Last season's numbers, dated: kits packed, kits staged by district, kits released and where, money in and what it bought. The audited annual figures go here exactly as the auditor wrote them.
The frames above are placeholder photographs of the kind of work this page is about — not this organisation's own record, and never a person whose face buys sympathy. The slots below are deliberately blank: this is a template, and an invented beneficiary count, an invented donor or an invented 80G number would be a lie on a page asking people to give — and inventing the tax registration is an offence. Fill each slot with something real and checkable, then delete this line.
How it works
Three steps, and money moves only to the trust's account, only against a receipt.
The form records what you picked and how to reach you. Nothing is charged here — this page cannot take money, by design, in any season.
Within the week, with the account details and receipt mechanics — and for kit pledges, which district godown your kits will be staged in.
The quarterly sheet counts packed, staged and released, district by district. Visit the packing hall any dry-season Saturday; the monsoon's real heroes are stacked in rows, waiting.
Before you give
Because flood-week money buys goods at panic prices and arrives after the worst days, and because appeals built on drowning footage teach donors to wait for drowning footage. The bhoral idea is the opposite: fill the granary in the dry months, release fast, and let the quarterly log do the talking.
A good year is the best problem this fund can have. Kits are date-tracked and rotated out well before expiry — sold at cost into ration shops with the proceeds returned to the fund, every rotation logged. Nothing rots on a shelf and nothing is quietly written off.
Releases go through the district administration's own lists and camps — we stage and truck, they allocate. It costs us some control and spares the worst-hit the indignity of competing for a private trust's favour. The release log names the blocks, not the families.
Only if the FCRA cell at the top of this page carries a current registration — foreign contribution without it is illegal for us to accept, and we refuse it rather than route it cleverly. If the cell is empty, give through a friend's Indian account only if the money is genuinely theirs to give.
Only if the 80G cell at the top carries a current number, checkable on the income-tax portal. The office shares the certificate before any transfer; an empty cell means ask first.
The one thing this page asks
One form, one intention — best sent in the dry months. The office replies within the week; nothing is charged or collected here.
You want to help with
Nothing yet — pick a way to give above, or say it in the form.
Three required fields: a name, a way to reply, and which of four conversations this is. Deliberately absent: any amount field (the cards carry the kit costs), any PAN (that belongs with the 80G receipt at donation time), any payment field (this page records intentions and takes nothing) — and any urgency theatre: no countdowns, no target thermometers, because a standing fund's entire discipline is that it does not panic and does not make you.
Your details go to the trust's office for this one reply and the packing rota if you volunteered. Never sold, no appeal calls in any season.