Cooking utensils, buckets/mugs, blankets woolens, tarpaulins, old flex banners, torch batteries, umbrellas, raincoats, dry ration – all basic essentials are urgent requirements for the flood affected regions of north India / uttaranchal. An initiative called Rahat Floods by Goonj (goonj.org) is looking for these and have set up pickup centres in all major cities of India. You can write to mail@goonj.org or call them on 011-41401216