IDRF Adopts a Village in Gujarat

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HOUSTON, TEXAS, JULY 5, 2001: Three hundred families in Jivapar village in Gujarat will soon have strong, earthquake-resistant homes. The India Development and Relief Fund – Houston has decided to adopt the village in Morbi taluka of Rajkot district and rebuilding work is expected to start early next year. The IDRF is building 204 new houses at an estimated cost of $800,000, to be shared equally by the IDRF and the Gujarat government. IDRF president Vinod Prakash said, “It is a source of immense inner joy and happiness for all the IDRF donors and volunteers that their hard-earned money and intense effort to alleviate the misery of the quake victims is taking concrete shape.”