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Wayanad: Kerala’s leading NGO, People’s Foundation, has declared in a statement on Friday that it would formally announce the completion of its rehabilitation project for 2018 flood victims in an upcoming event at Wayanad district.
The organization has been working extensively since the devastating 2018 floods, in partnership with other NGOs and is scheduled to break the news at the inaugural ceremony of Panamaram people’s village event on June 13. Rahul Gandhi is slated to be the chief guest through a video conference for this ceremony.
The inauguration is planned as an online event with attendees like P Sreeramakrishnan (speaker of Kerala legislative assembly), P V Abdul Vahab (MP), Saadatullah Husaini (Chief of Jamaat e Islami Hind), T. Arifali (Secretary-General), M.I Abdul Asees (Jamaat e Islami Kerala Chief), IC Balakrishnan (MLA), CK Sasindran (MLA), OR Kelu (MLA), K.B Naseema (District Panchayat President), Adeela Abdullah(Wayanad District Collector), P Mujeeb Rahman (Jamaat e Islami Kerala Secretary), M.K Muhammad Ali (People’s Foundation Chairman), Razak Paleri (Welfare Party State Vice President), M. Abdul Majeed (People’s Foundation Secretary), Shyni Krishna (Panamaram Panchayat President) and other dignitaries. The live session would also be available for the public through different online platforms.
People’s Foundation is one of the first organizations to have addressed the housing crisis after the floods in 2018 and the only one that primarily focused on rescue services throughout the state with its volunteer department known as Ideal Relief Wing. It later went on to coordinate a comprehensive project worth Rs 25 Crore for the rehabilitation of affected communities all over the state. The amount for it was collected with help of volunteer agencies, different social service organizations and the common public, detailing its plan of constructing 305 houses, repairing 888 houses, arranging for livelihood for 811 families and ensuring 34 drinking water projects for the rehabilitation areas.
“The beneficiaries for all the projects were selected impartially, without considering caste, religion, politics and any other privileges,” said Abdul Raheem from the Foundation. He informed that the volunteers had conducted detailed surveys with the support of local self-government institutions to assess the loss and select the beneficiaries, several of whom were landless labourers. The project started as an all-round development scheme for the affected communities including construction and repairing of houses, drinking water projects, health cards distribution, educational scholarships, school kits and laptop distribution drives.
Once completed, the project was renamed as ‘People’s villages’ that are spread across 5 different locations – Namboorippotty of Malappuram district, Illikkal of Kottayam district, Mananthavadi, Meenangadi and Panamaram of Wayanad district.
Going ahead with its spirit of community service, People’s Foundations has revealed its plans of a new relief and rehabilitation project worth Rs10 Cr, for the victims of the 2019 flood in the state. As a part of the new project, the Foundation has already started working to provide relief measures to the flood-affected entrepreneurs by addressing the needs of 600 nano- entrepreneurs in the affected regions. Recently, on World Environment Day on June 5, a total of 50000 saplings were planted in the housing sites to honour the environmental conservation practices that are deeply rooted in the Foundation’s housing development scheme.