By PD Thomas | Project Leader
The biggest natural disaster faced in a century left the state of Kerala reeling in flood waters. What was left behind is a trail of devastation requiring immense resources and years to rebuild and reach normalcy. Over nine hundred thousand people were shifted into relief camps and lakhs of people lost homes, property, furniture together with dreams of a happy life and hundreds are yet to recover from psychological trauma they faced during this time of trial.
The floods brought together thousands of people who worked day and night to reach relief materials, help to clean homes buy and provide household materials and help rebuild homes and life and the emergency response can indeed be termed a tale of benevolence.
The Don Bosco team also made great efforts to reach the flood affected by ways of providing immediate assistance to reach food and other essentials to relief camps, provide household utensils to those who lost it, provide beddings to over 200 families, help by way of cleaning homes, reaching cleaning materials such as gum boots, hand gloves, face masks, chlorine tablets etc. Over 2000 kits of cleaning materials were provided to Aluva, Alappuzha, Kuttanad, Chengannur, Changanassery Ranni, Parumala and Kollam through our sister insitutions. Manroe Island in Kollam and Ranni in Pathanamthitta were places reached by our team to provide cleaning services and reach household items.
We provided help to people of Karimadom slum when flood hit Trivandrum though in a minor scale. Don Bosco Team visited the flood hit areas at Attukal and Neyyattinikara. Number of families has lost their households, documents, and children’s educational materials, etc. During the emergency period, organization provided immediate relief to affected victims. The team made a preliminary study to understand the needs of the people and a decision to target children who lost school materials was put forth. We provided school materials to 80 children in the two areas of Thiruvanthapuram. Local Self Government (LSG) members put in their efforts to identify the beneficiaries.
The help you provided has reached those who really required the same. Still more resources and help are required to rebuild flood affected Kerala.
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