In continuation of emergency relief packages distributed to Chennai flood victims in January 2016 and relief - recovery undertaken in March 2016 and Educational aids for school Children in June 2016, VOICE Trust is now ready with another help from Global Giving for four types of educational aids for 800 school Children in Chennai and four types of relief goods for Manali school benefitting 1200 school Children . Because of quaterly exams getting over on September 23, 2016 and quaterly holidays upto October 2, distribution of educational aids for Chennai flood victims will start after October 3, 2016.
For Manali School:
We will present completion report before end of October 2016
100 Children in flood affected areas in Chennai wanted school bags which they lost in November, December 2015 floods. Social work friends in Chennai informed us. VOICE Trust managed to buy 100 school bags from your help received through Global Giving and distributed them on June 19, 2016 in a small function in the presence of Thol. Thirumavalavan, a social activist turned leader of a political party.
100 more Children in flood areas of Chennai wanted longer size note books, geometry box and sketch pen-set for helping them in their school studies. VOICE Trust used your money for districbution of these educational aids in the same function on June 19,2016. Children informed that these materials are very useful to them.
Fresh request has come from 400 Children in flood areas of Chennai. Their families are daily wage earning families. They do not have money to support thr educational needs of Children. Hence, VOICE Trust sends an emergency appeal through Global Giving for your special help for providing following needs:
-School Bags for 200 Children
-Note books, geometry box, sketch pen-set for 200 Children.
Special Note: Your help is going to bring big supports for Children from daily wage earning families.
Please send your help very soon so that we can distribute educational aids to 400 more Children.
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Survival Relief Packages prepared by VOICE Trust with financial assistance received from donors through Global Giving were distributed in the beginning of January 2016. Report of this has already been presented to you.
During March 2016, Second Phase Flood Relief and Recovery Programs were continued with help received from donors through Global Giving.
*150 flood affected families of Ekkaduthangal who still continue to live on the sides of the streets near metro station were given taurpaulin sheets to use as a temporary roof cover for protecting them from sun heats and rains also given were kerosene stoves to cook their food. This was a big help for them to heat water at night for taking medicenes and such an activity was not possible earlier because near by families objected to using firewood for country mud oven. Once again they were given rice in cloth bags and groceries for cooking.
*100 school children identified by Kalaipattarai through Cine Director S.P. Mukilan, were given school bags.
*160 flood affected families of Saligramam were given survival relief packages.
*40 inmates of Orphanage also helped with relief goods.
VOICE Trust is continuing to receive informations from flood affected families that the relief goods received by them because of help from donors through Global Giving has led them in a big way to return to normalcy. VOICE Team thanks the donors and appreciates Global Giving for using us as effective instruments in flood relief activities.
Special Note: Many requests have come from school Children from Flood affected areas in Chennai for educational supports beginning from June 2016 when the new academic year commences. If it is possible for you dear donors to extend such helps please assist through Global Giving.
When people of Chennai experienced loss to life, destruction of household goods and damages to homes, your help reached them in the form of relief packages with cooking vessels, rice, wheat, oil, groceries, new clothes, bucket, water drum, tumblers, mosquito net and made them feel encouraged to go forward in life.
Though it was a small gesture, still, flood affected people considered it as a great help at a time when they were down in all aspects of life starting from no food, no water, no sleep etc. They appreciated the utility of all goods. They found mosquito net helpful to ward off the insects. They liked the cloth bag and started using it in avoidance of plastics.
While distributing the relief packages, we convey to the flood affected people about your special help for them in this hour of calamity and distress. Though far off from them many many miles away, still, you chose to help them. The flood affected people appreciated your care and concern for them. They offered their thanks to you through us.
VOICE Team joins the flood affected people of Chennai to convey our gratitude to you and your family members for coming forward to extend emergency help for the flood victims. Happy to inform you that small small efforts like yours and ours have enabled them to return to physical as well as mental strengths.
We got supports from Global Giving under Ford Motor Company Fund and we planned for relief packages to 650 families. But, the ground reality took us to 765 families in total. So, we included your help to add a few goods in each of the relief packages to ensure that your help reached them in troubled times. Thank you again for your help.
Special Note:
More requests are coming from flood affected people for relief - recovery - rebuilding of homes. Kindly extend help in whatever way possible at your level. Please inform our appeal to your friends. Please help through Global Giving.
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