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.