Maniyarankudy Rehabilitation | Updates

Dear Antony and Team,

We wish you and TinyinIniative team a very happy and prosperous new year. May almighty bless you in abundance for all your great humanitarian efforts.

After distributing furnitures to 19 families, we were keeping quite to extend our support during their house construction. They all wanted us to help them during their house construction time. Let me give you a quick update on the situation.

1. Government provided 10K relief support and closed the relief camps and support.

2. All the affected people moved to temporary shelters or to rented house

3. Multiple rounds of damage assessments happened and government agreed on the list of people who lost their houses.

4. Authorities inspected the locations and notified the plots which are unfit to construct any buildings (ie, most of them received the communication that their land is not approved for house construction)

5. Where to construct the house ? And who will support them to purchase suitable land? etc are open questions

6. Government agencies are "going to" give to funds to the victims who have safe land with pattayam. In reality most of them are having unsafe land, and that too without pattayam. In this area pattayam applicants are pending for decades.

7. For people who do not have pattayam, what would be the procedure to release the government aid is again another open question.

8. All the victims are busy with the so called official procedures. All are spending their 100% energy to get their much deserved government support.

In short most of the underprivileged victims whom we target to support are stuck. 

There are some positive developments happening due to the like minded public. So that some of the affected victims received offers for land. (But most of the land is non patta in this area). 

Initially my proposal to you was to release the support only after they complete the construction of the basement with Government support. But now I feel that we should not insist for the government supports. Because I don't know when such things will happen. Let us not highlight the government formalities. Shall we start support them as soon as the get any sponsor for land? 

I met most of the victims in person. 2 are starting construction. Other 2 received offers for land from the  nearby convent. We are trying to find some more supporters for arranging land. So are hoping that 2019 will allow us to complete the reconstructions.

Let me extend our sincere thanks to you and your team for your great support to the victims. May the new year full all your dreams. Happy new year :)

Thanks,
Jinesh Jose