Flood Relief (Athani, Kerala) | House construction for Kumar and family

Dear Friends,

Please see the mail/pics from Fr Augutine.  Kumar is a Mason and he is basically from Tamilnadu. He's been living in Athani since many years and Fr has helped in the past to get him some work.  This is a genuine case and I think we should help. Please note that this family is from Athani (Angamali). I have already told Fr that we will directly buy the required materials and give it to the affected family and won't transfer money to any individual or organization. I think we will allocate 50K to start with and then we will see based on the progress. Let me know what you think by posting your suggestion in the comments. Shyju will co-ordinate this. 

Concrete bricks and big metal stones (foundation) for house construction | Shaji

Shaji's house got severely damaged (got split) during the landslide. But he is NOT eligible to get ANY benefits from the government as his house is not fully gone (even though its not livable and the site doesn't have pattayam).  Jinesh visited both the earlier site (damaged house) and the new site (where he is currently living in a temporary shed).

We have decided to buy/sponsor the concrete bricks (around 70,000 Rs) required in the construction of the house. Each concrete brick will cost around 35 Rs and they will need around 2000 of them. We are in the process of negotiating with the contractor and the cost may come down slightly.

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.

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 !

It simply can't get any better.... !!

It just can't get any better... !!!!  Last Saturday,  4-6  kids in our apartment including Joe & Tony (Prajval, Mithil, Vasisht and Sanvi were the others) had conducted a food fest sort of thing in our basement. They called it "Chillar party" or something like that...They do that every vacation to make some extra pocket money. They made bhel puri, lime juice , bhajji  etc and also conducted some games. They sell these for 5-10 bucks and the profit they finally made was only around 400-500 Rs. Last year, it was much bigger and they had divided the profit among themselves. I was under the impression that they are doing the same thing this year as well.

A thank you note from Snehadaan (Sneha Care Home)

Couple of hours with the children @ Snehadaan (Sneha Care Home)

Last Saturday (March 25, 2017), we bought all the items for school kits (notebooks, coloring books, geometry boxes, pencils, pens, erasers, sharpeners, crayons, pencil boxes, sketch pens, rulers etc)  required for one academic year for each of the 83 kids @ Snehadaan and handed it over to the children.  All the children in the Bangalore center are aged between 6 years and 12 years, and we got the items according to the age group. Initially we thought of creating separate kit for each kid, but then ditched that idea as shopping itself took little more than 4 hours !! We got good discounts as we bought it in bulk from Metro.

 

FInancial help for kidney transplantation | Raised 1 Lakh

We have raised 1 Lakh for this cause  (50 K from our account and 50K from Shyju's group) and they have confirmed that the money has been credited to their account.  You can find the initial details about this case here:-  http://tinyinitiative.blogspot.in/2017/02/rohan-roshan-mysore-financial-help-for.html

We had collected some additional details about both in the mean time and that's given below:

School kits for the 83 kids living with HIV @ Snehadaan (Sneha Care Home)

Dears,

Fr Jaison from Snehadhan has agreed for the proposal that we had put forward for helping the kids there.  We will buy 83 school kits (bag, books, pencil, pen, eraser etc) for the next academic year. Each kit will be worth 500 Rs (Approx). Thought it's a better idea than giving them money.

We are doing something similar for an Orphanage on Bannerghatta road from our church next week. We have few guys in church who has the Metro membership, so that we can purchase in bulk for a good deal.  I'm planning to purchase these 83 kits also along with that purchase and hand those over to Snehadhan next week itself.  Hope Bangalore guys (Sreeju, Jithu , Prasad) can me join me.

Please see the mail from Fr Jaison below:

-pulicken

Snehadaan | Financial support for HIV infected kids (Sneha Care Home)

Further to what I mentioned about Snehadaan in the earlier post,  we also discussed with them about the possibility of sponsoring a kid or may be buying them grocery for a week/month etc.  He said they normally buy in bulk from Yeswanthpur and he said we can either buy groceries and give it to them or we can give them the money and they will buy it in bulk.

He has not told anything clearly about sponsoring a particular kid. I will follow up with him on that and update this post once I get that information.

In the mean time, request you to go through the below write-up about Snehadaan and let us decide whether we should get involved.