Rexine mattresses and pillows for Akashaparavakal | Freinds and birds of the air

Around Christmas time (2018), Akashaparavakal requested whether we can buy them few Rexine mattresses and pillows (Rexine to ensure water proofing)  for the inmates.  Each one was costing around 2000 Rs and we got them 10.

Kerala Flood Relief | Help for 8 more families (Nov 12, 2018)

We delivered furniture for 8 more families @ Maniyarankudy with Jinesh and his dad's help....All these families have lost their home/land in the landslides that happened in August. Most of these families are staying in the temporary rooms provided by KSEB.

We have been able to help 19 families so far, thanks for all your generous contributions !

Furniture for five more families (Chellappan, Rajan, Vijayan, Manoj, Poulose)

We delivered basic furniture for five more families this week.  Most of these families are from tribal belt...
Thanks to Bijesh, Abin and Ajay Oommen for sharing the cost (49K).

Maniyarankudy Rehabilitation | Furniture for five families (Jayaraj, Binu, Thangamma, Jaison, Maria Das)

We bought/delivered furniture for five more families this Saturday (Sep 29th, 2018).  All the five houses were in the same area and they lost everything in the same landslide that happened on August 15th.  When the relief camps were closed, some of them moved to rented rooms, some moved to the house of their relatives and some are still staying in the halls provided by Panchayat. 

Out of these, Mr Jayaraj's family lost 4 of family members in the landslide including his wife and daughter. I spoke to Maria Das,  who is Jayaraj's neighbour and he is still in shock as he had witnessed the landslide and the 4 members were swept away in front of his eyes ! We also bought furniture for Maria Das.

Maniyarankudy Rehabilitation | Furniture for Mr Johnson's family

It's look like the land allocation/construction of the houses of affected families is going to take more time as they don't want to start with out getting a clarity on the government support.

What the families need in the mean time is some furniture that they can use now in the temporary shelter and later on when they have their own house.

Maniyarankudy Rehabilitation Support | List of affected families

I had multiple discussions with Jinesh and it looks like first priority for the affected families is some help in re-construction of their houses out of the 4 options that Jinesh had shared in the earlier post.  Some families cannot start construction now as it's not possible to construct in the affected area and they are waiting for allocation of new land. There are few families who can start construction in their current land itself.  I have asked them to find more details about the support they are getting from government in re-construction.

Kerala Floods | Support for few affected families in Maniyarankudy village (Idukki)

Further to what is mentioned in the earlier post, please find below the details from Jinesh on a heavily affected  area in Maniyarankudy village in Idukki district. Please post your thoughts/comments on how we can help.

Kerala floods | Help affected families to get back on their feet

Dears,

Most of us are involved in flood relief related activities directly or indirectly through our friends, residential associations, church and other organizations. What I understood after talking to various sources is that currently there is adequate supply of relief materials in most of the camps and it’s still pouring in. This will start reducing gradually once the current volunteers gets back to their day-to-day life. 

Freinds and birds of the air | DIning plates for the inmates @ Akashaparavakal

Sr from Akashaparavakal called me last week and mentioned that most of the dining plates at the Ashram are broken and whether we will be able to help to buy new steel plates. She requested for 45 plates and  I immediately agreed.

Support for Trithva on an ongoing/regular basis | Akashaparavakal

We were shocked and saddened when the folks at Trithva Ashrama (friends and birds of the air)  mentioned that there were days when they ran out of all the supplies and managed with little rice that was left over (keep in mind that they 40-45 women inmates and most of them are mentally ill).

Covered partition/room on the terrace for candle making - Akashaparavakal (Friends and Birds of the Air)

While we started the Grill work to cover the terrace of Tritva Ashram (Friends and birds of the air aka Akashaparavakal) , we were also thinking of different ways to make them self sufficient...when I discussed that with them, they said it would be good if we can create a small covered partition/room on the terrace so that they can start making candles sitting there.

Grill/Mesh to cover the terrace for Akasha Paravakal (Friends and Birds of the Air)

Sorry for the delay in sending these, actually the grill/mesh work that we did on the Ashram's terrace got completed only couple of weeks back. As I had mentioned earlier , the only open space (and the only place they get some sunlight and air)  that they have in women's ashram (it's a house with 45 people !!) is their terrace and they are not able to let the women inmates use it as there are cases where some of them jumped from there (these are mentally ill women) and there are cases where they threw things down from the terrace.

Pics that we have been waiting for... Tables and chairs for bungalowpudur-pudur school

Here's the pics (scroll down)  that we have been waiting for ever since we helped this case ... :-)

Flower pots/flowers for setting up a terrace garden - Akasha paravakal

As I had mentioned earlier , the only open space (and the only place they get some sunlight and air)  that they have in women's ashram (it's a house with 45 people !!) is their terrace and half of the small terrace they were using it as dump yard where they dumped all un-used stuff and broken furniture.

2.3 Lakhs raised | Plans for Friends and birds of the air (Updated on June 07th)

We have raised close to 2.3 L now (50k from our fund and rest from outside).... I had taken my friend Praveen and his family, when we went to the ashrmam last week and he is also actively involved now...

These are the specific ares where we are trying to help and this is how we have split it as of now between our group and his...

Tables and chairs for 3 classes for a school in bungalowpudur village (Tamilnadu)

Hi ,

Hi this S Parimalam working as secondary grade  teacher in bungalowpudur-pudur t. N palayam, Tamilnadu. I'm working here from 2012 still now. Our school has totally 150 students and 8teachers/

Freinds and birds of the air - Clear the pending dues in the grocery shop ( 1 Lakh INR)

Freinds and birds of the air  aka akashaparavakal have  around 4-5 Lakhs INR dues in various shops (grocery, vegetable etc) for their 3 ashramams in Bangalore.

Friends and the Birds of the Air | Fund raising request for 'Akasaparavakalude koottukar'

Jisso had called me couple of weeks back and told me to visit this institute by name 'Akasha paravakal" when he came to know about the financial struggle that they are going through to make the ends meet . It's a place where the mentally ill street wanderers are picked up from the streets, 'the children'  as they are referred here, are adopted, bathed and groomed lovingly.