Kerala Flood Relief 2018
We are ONE group of dedicated individuals from the local Kerala area and abroad trying to help the affected families by the recent Kerala Flood
Our goal is to support the families badly impacted. We have witnessed this flood disaster and its impact with our own eyes. We have seen the struggling families, trying to rebuild their life and homes. We visited these home to assess the impact and needs of these families. In addition to supporting many other relief activities and funds, we believe that supporting these families directly, would make a bigger impact in everyone life.
This is how we are doing it and have done it.
1. Our team visited flood hit areas and spoke to impacted families.
3. Compiled a list of household and kitchen items to be donated(excluding food and clothing).
4. Created a project to support at least 25 families.
5. Our team approached multiple vendors at multiple locations to get best possible wholesale pricing and quick delivery.
6. Donate items in person to impacted families with acknowledgement.
Our goal is to support at least 25 families with a max budget of $5000.
Happy to say that all five projects are now COMPLETE.
Thanks to support and generosity of St Vincent de Paul (SVDP) community of St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, Somerset, NJ and PUNYAM, CA and family and friends .
Thanks to people on ground who made this happen.
More updated about various projects are available @ relief activities page
Nov 11th, 2018
Project#4 by PUNYAM
Project#4 is now COMPLETE.
Thanks to PUNYAM team, Raju Paul, Limesh and the team at Thoyakavu for your time, money and efforts. We are sure your hard work has touched many lives.
Nov 11th, 2018
Project#5 by St Vincent de Paul
Project#5 is now COMPLETE.
Thanks to St Vincent de Paul (SVDP) community of St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, Somerset, NJ and teams at Kuttanad area.
Nov 10th, 2018
Distribution of items
Happy to say that our Project #1 and Project #3 (to support 58 Families) is now complete.
Hats off to SVDP community, friends and family, and people on the ground for spending countless hours of work, especially for all ground work, including identifying the families, loading, unloading and distribution of these items and many more....
Aug 31st, 2018
Impacted homes
<< Here are some of the homes that we visited soon after the Kerala flooding. Heartbreaking to see these families. Not knowing where to start their life. Team decided to support these families, by providing basic household items to reinstate their lives.
Aug 24th, 2018
Project #2 updates
Benson, Jayesh and their teams visited places in and around Meloor and Chalakudy area, to identify the impacted families. All items distributed to much needed families. Project #2 is now complete. Big THANKS to the team.
Sep 24th, 2018
Damages explained
Team visited the homes again today. A homeowner explains about the damages.
Aug, 26th, 2018
Relief team in action
Team visited these homes again today and and spoke to many of the affected home owners. More from some of the impacted area.
Aug, 26th, 2018
More from relief team
More updates from relief team, trying to assist families
Aug 26th, 2018
MCA team wanted to help on their ways
Angelyn and Diya together with many other relatives and friends were involved in relief activities organized by our own team in Chengannur , Kerala .
They gave a touch of their school - MCA. Went to visit a local public school and distributed notebooks to students. Many students lost their books and belongings during the flood. It was hard to see kids drying up the soaked notebooks to continue their studies.