Manipur Relief Camps: Be the Hope for the Displaced

More than 50,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) live in the relief camps in Manipur, set up as humanitarian responses when ethnic violence erupted in 2023. What people thought would be maybe a week or a month is now going to be three years of displacement from their homes, lives, and livelihoods. 

At the relief camps, they face issues of sanitation, nutrition, and outbreaks of diseases, apart from the ongoing lack of access to livelihoods and education. The camps have become survival zones, and every displaced individual carries a story of loss and a fragile hope – to survive, to return to their villages, and to reclaim a sense of normalcy. 

While they wait for government action to resettle them to their original homes, for which the timelines have continually shifted, the IDPs have been forced to reinvent themselves to survive, have a sense of purpose, and try to ensure a good future for their children. While the hope of going home persists, waiting for a date that has not yet arrived, the people in the relief camps of Manipur continue to fight their battle for a life of safety and dignity, and need immediate help.

Place: Manipur Imphal West Relief Camps - Meitei Langol Relief Camp, Sagoltongba Relief Camp, and Manipur Trade and Expo Centre Relief Camp, Lamboikhongnangkhong 

Scout: Bevei Konah Simeon 

Need: Rs. 120000 (gas stove requirements) + Rs. 2,40,000 (teacher salary support)

1. Gas and stove requirement for 20 families @6000/- 

2. Salary support for three tuition teachers @8000/- per month for a period of 10 months, benefitting 90 children in the relief camps.