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KERALITE
2018

Project 1 - Submitted by Sujith Menon
Organization: VISWAS (Victims Sensitization,
Welfare & Assistance Society) is an NGO which
undertake many humanitarian & social welfare
initiatives.

Coordinators: President: Sri. D. Balamurali IAS,
district collector, Palakkad, Secretary : Sri. P.
Premnath, assistant public prosecutor
Place: Kanjikode Apna Ghar relief camp
Kerala Club Coordinators: Subhash Ramachandran
(EC Member), Sujith Menon (President)
Project details:
The Kerala Club of Detroit, Michigan donated 1000
beds to the occupants at Kanjikode Apna Ghar
relief camp at a function held in Palakkad in the Apna Ghar is originally a state-of-the-art facility for
presence of Sri. D. Balamurali IAS (District Collector, migrant workers which is yet to be inaugurated and
Palakkad) and Krishnakumar (Deputy Chairman, occupied. This was converted to a relief camp due
Palakkad Municipality). This would cover the bedding to the urgent flood situation. Apna Ghar facility has
need for all of the people at this relief camp. Mr. 64 big rooms and there are 610 people in this relief
Subhash Ramachandran, ex-president of the Kerala camp. Most of the occupants at this relief camp are
Club along with Sujith Menon handled the logistics from various flood-a ected areas of Palakkad, like
from our end. The Kerala Club worked with VISWAS, Kalpathy, Sekharipuram, Olavakkode, Kadukkam
an NGO in Palakkad to coordinate these e orts. Kunnu and Shankhu Varathodu.

Project 2 - Submitted by
Binu and Bini Panicker
Organization: Chingavanam School serving as emergency relief camp
Coordinators: School principal, relief camp coordinators

Place: Kurichi Relief Camps

Kerala Club Coordinators: Binu Panicker
(Member), Bini Panicker (Member)
Project details:
Chingavanam School is serving as a
makeshift emergency relief camp for
Lakshmi Veedu Colony members. Kurichi
is another relief camp serving the needs of
people a ected in Kottayam. Based on the
relief camp help request, members of
Kerala Club worked with the relief camp
coordinators and school principal to
provide urgently needed essential clothes.
Most of the relief camp residents have lost
all of their basic clothing.

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