Kerala Flood Relief Fund

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Kerala is witnessing the worst flood of the century and more than hundred of thousands people lost their homes, livelihood and the flood also claimed around 150+ lives. Lives are in danger as people are left without shelter, food and drinking water.

The situation in Kerala right now is extremely tragic - torrential rains the likes of which haven't been seen since 1924 have led to a disastrous flood situation. It's hard to process the gravity of the damage done. 

We are requesting your immediate support to help our fellow human beings in Kerala to provide emergency food kits and medical assistance.

Intense rainy seasons are an annual phenomenon in Kerala, which lies in the path of the south-west monsoon that provides India with 70% of its annual rainfall in a four-month period. When the downpours began earlier this month, state authorities initially assured people that the situation was under control. They appear to have been caught by surprise, however, and then overwhelmed by the prolonged intensity of rainfall more than two-and-a-half times heavier than usual in the week to 15 August and 457% more than average in the worst-hit district of Idduki where most of the number of dams and flood gates are situated.

The tools used by met officials to assess climate change are long term, area-wise monsoon predictions – which are, the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology concedes – far from easy to make.In the meanwhile, water levels in Kerala have slowly begun to recede. Unfortunately, the end of monsoon is still weeks away.

We the team (Drisya, Varughese and Gigimon Ninan), who are working outside the state and resides from Kerala state need to help our home state by providing relief to the survivors who are in the emergency relief centers, and enable them with food and medicine supplies. The impacted includes farmers, students and once they are back at their home, need to support to monitor repair/restoration and rehabilitation work of the damaged properties and habitation. Also we would like to undertake long-term measures by coordinating the activities of different NGOs, Government agencies etc. in order to minimize the impact of floods and human casualties.

All the provided funds will be withdrawn in my name (Gigimon Ninan).

SHORT-TERM NEEDS: 
- Provide food items. 
- Conduct free medical camps. 
- Provide clothes and other basic hygiene utilities . 


LONG-TERM NEEDS: 
- To support the sanitary workers who should come into action immediately after the floods to clear the piled up garbage at the survivors house.
- To support  social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists to counsel the affected.
- To monitor hunger and starvation due to food scarcity and provide food to the needy.
- To support reconstruction of homes and help with re-enabling the livelihood’
-  Already we have identified students from schools, with the support of their teachers, whose parents lost their means of occupation; few of  them were running petty shops, agriculture, running farms etc. one portion of the amount will be shared with them.
- In the same school, use the fund to buy books, bag's, uniforms and other supporting utilities for the students.
- Identified an education institution, which lost its part of building, will contribute to reconstruction of that.
- Incase of anymore fund left unused, that will be contributed to Kerala CM's disaster relief fund. (more details are added here: https://donation.cmdrf.kerala.gov.in/ )


Your donation whether it’s small or big will help thousands of survivors recover from the worst flood crisis. Also your continued support through spreading awareness is very valuable by sharing this with your friends and family can go a long way and help the needy. 


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