Medical aid request for Shreehari (6th standard student)

During our "Enable children for online education" drive, we had given a laptop to Pranav (9th grade) and his brother Sreehari (6th grade). Jinesh had mentioned to me about Sreehari's medical condition (kid on the right in the pic below) at that time. His kidneys are affected and he is having high BP, sugar and Cholestrol coz of the side effect of the medicines that he is taking since last 8 years (he is 12 years now).   

I spoke to his dad Ratheesh yesterday and he said Sreehari had siezures day before yesterday.   Ratheesh is a mason and he told me that he is not able to go to work coz of the continous hospitalization of the kid. 

Completed | House construction for a single parent @ Garopara village (Assam)

Glad to let you know that house warming of zenkina (Garopara village, Assam) has been completed and they have moved in. It's a small house and the total budget was just 60,000 /-.  They were short of 15K and thanks to my cousin brother Augustine for taking care of that expense. Big thanks to Fr Augustine for all the co-ordination and the actual execution.

Online class support for 19 students completed | Mail from Jinesh

Dear Antony and Team,

On 20-Jul-2020 we completed the distribution of the 10th device and completed our planned student support initiative. We could help 10  families  with 5 Laptops and 5 Tabs (19 students) through this initiative. 

 

Request help for the treatment of the student that we helped

While doing the background check of the families of the students that we helped with laptops/tabs, we had figured out that they have much bigger problems that are health related and financial issues. I had requested Jinesh to keep some of these families in the radar and had asked him to reach out to us if any of them needs any help.

Got a call from Jinesh yesterday around 1:45 PM for a financial help to discharge (M.O.S.C medical college hospital, Kolanchery) one of the student that we helped. They were short of 8000 Rs. I spoke to them immediately and  we transferred 8K by 2PM. Big thanks to my friend Praveen and his sister for bearing these expenses!

Hand over of laptops/tablets to students

 

I don't think  I should write anything as these pictures speaks for itself :-)  :-). 

Fund raising request | House construction for a single parent @ Garopara village (Assam)

This also came through Fr Augustine. They have already got a commitment of 25K, another 35K is needed as its a simple house with bamboo wall and tin sheet.  Construction has already started and you can see the pics towards the end. 

Raised 1 Lakh | Enable children for online education

Fund Raising Request - http://tinyinitiative.blogspot.com/2020/06/fud-raising-request-enable-children-for.html

Updates - June 19, 2020

We got a commitment of 1 Lakh Rs (50 k from our internal fund and 50 k from outside). Through Sreeju's contact in Bangalore we bought 5 second hand Laptops (10,500 Rs each) with the below configuration.

Raised 72,500 Rs | House construction @ New Moskuli (Assam)

We had sent a request for fund  raising for a house construction @ New Moskuli (Assam)  back in Feb - http://tinyinitiative.blogspot.com/2020/02/fund-raising-request-house-construction.html
Plan and detailed break-up of the budget is available in the above link.

Fund raising request | Enable children for online education

I called up Jinesh yesterday the moment i saw this news about girl committing suicide because she did not have a TV or smartphone at home to attend the online classes.

Kuttayi's leg surgery | Updates (Mar 19, 2020)

I'm  constantly in touch with Kuttayi's family since last couple of weeks and he is recovering well :-) :-)  Please see the detailed updates from Jinesh below. Totally, we gave 30k so far (20k from internal fund that Mathai transferred, 5k from Lijo and 5k from Raman). Big thanks to all.

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Dear Antony and Team,

Today I met Kuttai's relatives. This week he is in Idukki, next week he will be going to Jubilee mission hospital. His condition has improved drastically. Now blood circulation restarted on his foot.. some more puss is there but now that is very less compared to earlier conditions.

His body color itself is getting changed to the original color. They expressed their immense happiness for your timely support. Now he can avoid amputation. He got his leg back.. your team's prompt support deserves due credit for this. 

Keralakoottam (Zurich) | Medicine for the month of March

Keralakoottam (Zurich) had given 30,500/- Rs  for AKashaparavakal.

Out of that, 19.5 K we had used for buying medicines for the month of Jan - http://tinyinitiative.blogspot.com/2020/01/akashaparavakal-medicines-for-one-month.html

Rest of the money (11 K) , we had given for hospital expense of one of the inmate - http://tinyinitiative.blogspot.com/2020/02/keralakoottam-zurich-hospital-expenses.html

But when the hospital management, heard about this story , they gave a discount and we had to use only 5K.

Balance 5K was used to buy few medicines in March and 1K to buy some fruits in August 2020. Here's the bill for the same. Once again, thanks to the folks at Keralakoottam.

Request for help - Kuttayi leg surgery (Cheruthoni, Idukki)

Dear Antony,

Hope you are doing well. I have received a request for support. I did the preliminary data collection and found to be a genuine case.

This is the case of a road tarring worker, who is suffering from femoral occlusion. This medical condition is caused due to his work, ie, melting bitumin and also due to smoking. No blood flow into his feet. As per the Idukki medical college, left foot requires removal.  Left leg is full of puss. Right leg is also infected. They suggested to shift the patient to Kottayam medical college for the surgery, but the family is unable to carry out the surgery due to lack of money.

Keralakoottam (Zurich) | Hospital expenses for Kochurani

Kochurani came to Akashapaavakal Ashramam when she was just 3 or 4 years old.  Her mom had committed suicide and dad had abandoned her.  Sisters @ akashaparavkal adopted her and raised her as their daughter. They educated her and got her married to Samson couple of years back (Kochurani served as a volunteer at Akashaparavakal till she got married). Samson hails from Karwar and he is also an orphan. When Kochurani was 7 months pregnant, sisters went to Karwar and brought her back to asharamam in bangalore as that is the tradition ("Kooti kondu pokal"). They have been taking care of her since then including her regular check-ups/scans etc.

Fund Raising Request | House construction @ New Moskuli (Assam)

During the Kerala floods,  we had helped Mr Kumar's family in the house construction and painting.  This case was referred by Fr Augustine from Angamali (He came to know about our group through  a common friend).  Fr Augustine had done an amazing job in owning/executing this project and rehabilitating Kumar's family - http://tinyinitiative.blogspot.com/2019/08/kumar-house-warming.html.  Shyju had gone for the house warming of Kumar and he had met the father during that time.

Akashaparavakal | Medicines for one month delivered (Jan 2020)

We bought the medicines and delivered to Akashaparavakal yesterday (Jan 09, 2020). As mentioned in the earlier post, most of these medicines are for  psychiatric disorders. The total cost is Rs 19,500/-

Once again, big thanks to each and every one in Keralakoottam (Zurich) for this help.  Care takers at Akashaparavakal have requested us to use rest of the collected amount also for buying medicines if possible (next month).

Keralakoottam (Zurich) - Standing up for Charity

Extremely happy to see the below message from Madhu, a big thanks to each and every one in Keralakoottam.  I'm sure this is just a beginning. 

As discussed, we will use this amount for buying medicines (psychiatric drugs) for the 45 ammammar @ Akashaparavakal.

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Pulickaa,

Happy New Year  2020.

Keralakoottam – A Switzerland based Malayalee gathering group , was planning a get together for celebrating Christmas and New Year during first week of Jan 2020. Sunitha – one of our beloved

Solar water heater for Trithwa Ashram | Installation done on Dec 12, 2019

Good news !!  All the inmates @ Akashaparavakla are getting sufficient hot water for bathing after we installed the new 500 LPD solar water heater (Installation was done on 10th December 2019 and plumbing was done by 12th December) ! It was not easy otherwise for the inmates, especially since they are old and most of them are physically very weak.

Thanks to Regu, Ananth and Sandeep for the contributing towards the cause. Total expense was Rs 43,500/-. We got 28K from Regu, Ananth and Sandeep and rest from our internal fund (12K + 2.5K plumbing + 800 Rs servicing existing solar)!