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| NEWS UPDATES |
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Kerala Flood Of 2018 |
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USD Consortium’s Distress Relief Efforts for Victims of Kerala Flood |
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[August 24,2018] |
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Beginning on 16 August 2018, severe floods affected the south Indian state of Kerala, due to unusually high rainfall during the monsoon season. It was the worst flood in Kerala in nearly a century. Over 500 people died and about a million people were evacuated, mainly from places like Chengannur, Pandanad, Edanad, Aranmula, Kozhencherry, Ayiroor, Ranni, Pandalam, Kuttanad, Aluva,Chalakudy, N.Paravur, Chendamangalam, Eloor etc.
All 14 districts of the state were placed on red alert.
According to the Kerala government, one-sixth of the total population of Kerala had been directly affected by these floods and related incidents. The Indian government had declared it a Level 3 Calamity, or "calamity of a severe nature”. It is the worst flood in Kerala after the great flood of 99 that took place in 1924. |
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The flood has forced people to leave their homes and take shelter in more than 3000 relief camps spread across the state.
We are humbled to see how all of India has come together in helping the state of Kerala, which has been hit by the worst floods in the last 100 years.
Team USD also did their bit of efforts to help Flood Victims in Kerala, by donating food items like >250 kg rice, dry snacks, General medicines in bulk for water borne diseases, infections etc as suggested by Doctors, > 500 candles and match Boxes, >50 kg Detergent powder, >200 washing and bathing soaps, >200 Shampoo and oil pouches, >100 Toothbrush and Toothpastes, > 100 small Towels, more than 100 units of mosquito repellent etc
We believe in collective efforts and with the valuable contributions from the Society, we tried to play our role in mitigating the effects of the disaster and provide immediate relief to victims. We are very much thankful to every Donor for their valuable contributions, who all trusted us and with the help of these donations, we were able to purchase this much stuff. |
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We launched our Kerala Flood relief efforts on 16th August, late evening and we are thankful to all the good hearts for their quick contribution to help Kerala flood victims.
We have issued tax receipts directly to all patrons in due course of time as every contribution that was made towards ‘USD DISTRESS RELIEF FUND’ will get Tax exemption under Section 80G of the Income Tax Act 1961.
Our special thanks to Mrs. Kamlesh Dixit ji, Mr. Amit Bajpai, Mr. Roopak Vasishtha, Ms Suruchi Mittar, Mr Vijay Sharma, Mr Himanshu Dixit, Ms Heena Chowdhary, Ms Rita kaul, Ms latika Tandon, Dr. Aparna Sethi, Ms Priya Lokwani, Ms Radha Sood, Mr. Mohinder Pal Singh and Meenakshi, Ms Anjali Joshi, Mr. Amit Gouniyal, Ms Ritika Vasudev, Ms Poonam Verma, Ms Rinki, Ms Swati, Ms Abhilasha Gupta, Ms Dimple and everyone who has donated for the flood Victims in cash or kind. |
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WHAT CAUSED THE KERALA FLOODS? COULD WE HAVE DONE ANYTHING TO PREVENT IT? |
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Let’s think, NOW and pledge to take corrective actions as early as possible. |
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