CTC TN Flood Relief Efforts Update & Call for Support

Find below a quick update on CTC's ongoing relief efforts over the past several days. We also require volunteers/help in following below areas:

1. Volunteers

a. We need help in unloading, segregation and distribution of relief materials at our CTC Relief Center

Venue: Annail Arul marriage hall, near camp road signal

Time: Today, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday (morning till evening)

b. Survey areas in city outskirts which have been badly impacted and no relief has reached yet, focus on poor areas / slums / hamlets

Details over here

2. Relief

If you know any NGOs, individuals, trucks providing relief materials you can direct them to our CTC Relief Center at Tambaram

We will ensure that any materials are directed to the real needy/poor in unreached flood impacted areas/neighborhoods

Contacts: Prasanna: 9994816896, Manoj 9597119618, Vinoth 97910 13343

3. Support

So far more than 350 kind hearted souls remotely supported our relief efforts through donations to our CTC Relief Fund

We thank you for your overwhelming support and will provide details/updates on how the funds are used.

We still require additional funds to reach out to those in need who have been badly impacted. Donate here.

A.SANJIVI	Baskaran S	Jaisuryan	Muralikrishnan B	Rizwana Sultana	Subasri
Aasif Iqbal J	Bharathwaj	Jayapradha	MuthuGanesh Sethu	Rohith Chowdary	Subramanian
Aasif Iqbal J	Bhaskar Annamalai	Jerry Rosario	Muzamil Jah	Roopa Seshadri	Subramaniya
Abhilash	Biju Perumal	Jey Gopalsamy	Nandhini Rengaraju	S Ramesh	Sudarshan
Abhin Nair	Bino Lawrence	Jineesh George	Nandhini Rengaraju	Sachchidanand	Sudhindra Aithal
abhinav	Bino Lawrence	Joby James	Narender Reddy	Sai	Sujith Madhavan
Abhishek Kumar	Bipasha	Joseph Nishanth	Narendra	Sandeep	Sujith Madhavan
Abhishek Srivastava	Chandrasekar	Josephine Vanspall	Naresh	Sandeep Bharat	Suman Verma
Abilash Sathyanarayanan	Chandrashekar C	Jyothsna Balaji	Navin Chinnusamy	Sandesh	Sumit Singh
Adithya	Chitra sharma	K Chellappan	Nihit Saxena	Santhosh	Sundar G
Aditya bohra	chitra sharma	Kalaiselvan	Nila Vaithiyanathan	saradha	Sunit
Agasthian	David	Kaleeswari Saravanan	Nilesh	Sarath Babu R H	Suresh
Ajay Appaden	deebika	kalyani	Nisha	Saravanan	Suresh Dangeti
Ajitha yasmin S	Deepak C K	Kamal Tejnani	niyeti singhvi	Saravanane	Surya Sankar
Akash	Deepak Manoharan	Kamatchi	Pavan Madhini	Satheesh	Sutha Muthiah
Akilan	Deva	Kanagaraj	Pawan	Satheesh Kumar	Swamicharan Vandanapu
Alekhya Bodingari	Devi Priyadharishini	Kannan	Prabu	Satheeskumar	Swapna
Alok Kumar	Dheeraj Uppalapati	Kannan Kumarasamy	pradeep shetty	Satheeskumar	Swapnil Saxena
Ambika M	Dheeraj Uppalapati	Kannan Sabapathy	Prakash	Sathesh	Swathi
Amitha Krushnen	Dhinesh Dharmaraj	Kannan Sundararajan	Pramod	Sathish	Tarun Vaish
Amudhavalli Narayanan	Dilip R.S.	Kanthan	Prasanna	Sathiyabama	Thamarai Selvi N.M
Anand Marar	Dinesh	Karmuhilan	Prasanna krishnamurthy	Satyajit Choudhury	tharani
Anandhi Kumaraswamy	Dinesh Kumar	Karthik	Prashant Bhavsar	Selva Nagarajan	Trivandrum Runners Club
Anant	Dipali Gupta	Karthik	Prashant Tripathi	Selvakumar	Trivandrum Runners Club
Ananth	Dr. Bala Ramachandran	karthik	prashanth kumar	selvaraj	Uma Tharanipathy
Anil kumar ankireddy	EASWARAMOORTHI a	Karthik	Pravin.KC	Senthamizharasu	Vadivel
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Anoop Kutty	Elizabeth	Karthikeyan	Pugazhenthi	Senthilkumar	Vamsi
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Anurag Thakur	Faiza Anjum	karthikeyan.M	Raghavendra Matala	Shankar Ganesh	Varsha Umesh
Anushya Kumar	G D SURESH	Kasi mani	Raghu	Shankar Ram	VASU
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Aravindh Jo	Ganesh	Kishore	Rahul Kannan	Sharmila Y	VELMURUGAN
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Arjun sundar	gokul	Krishnan	Rajalakshmi Sathish Kumar	Shivakumar	Venkatesh Panneerselvam
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Arun N	Gokulesh R	Lata	Rajendra Wani	Shreevibha	Venkateswaran
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Arunkumar	Govindarajan	M Hari Prasad	Rakesh Warrier	Shriram	Vibrant Velachery
Aruthra	Guhan Thankavel	Maciej Samulski	Rakul Pravin	Shruti Rai	Vidya Venugopal
Ashok Raymond	Habari Warjri	Madhumitha	Ram Kumar SM	Sibin Thomas	Vignesh
Ashwin Alexander	Hari Thiruppathi	Madhumitha rp	Ram Ranganathan	Singaravelu	Vignesh Santhanagopalan
Ashwin Prabhu	Harish Ganesh	Mahesh	Ramesh	Siva	Vijay Anand
Ashwin Raghu	Haritha Prakash	Mahesh	Ramesh Kumar Balasubramaniam	Siva Kanagaraj	Vijay Babu b
Ashwin Sekar	Hema Menon	Mahesh Kambarrajan	Ramesh Rajendran	Sivaguru G	Vijay Rajendran
Ashwini Sriram	Hemanthkumar S	Manivannan	Ramkumar Balagopal	Sivakumar Palaniswamy	vijaya neerukonda
Avadh Nagpal	Hemkumar raghuraman	Mano	Ramkumar Krishnan	Sivakumar Thangavelu	VIJAYALAKSHMI
Azhagu Selvan SP	Hemnath	Mariyam Mohammad	Ramraja	Sivaraman	Vinitha
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Balaji S	Jafar khan	Mukesh Singh	Ravikumar	Sriram	Vivek
Balaji S	Jagadeesh	Muniyappan S	Rekha bishnou	Sriram Krishnan	Vivek Jeyandhar Kalidoss
Barath kumar	Jaganath	Murali Murugavel	REVATHI	SriRamakrishnan	Yuvaraj Thiyagarajan
Barathwaaj	Jagatheesan	Muralikrishnan	Ritam Basu	steffy	Zoe

4. Rehabilitation

After the initial focus on rescue (phase 1) and immediate relief (phase 2) CTC's next focus will be on rehabilitation (phase 3). The middle/upper class in Chennai city who were initially hit by the rain/floods have gone back to their normal lives. Its only the really hit slums/poor of Chennai and the villages/hamlets of Cuddalore that will take a long time to get back on their feet. CTC is planning to adopt a hamlet or slum and do everything towards the reconstruction including rebuilding shelters, helping repair their sources of livelihood, build proper water and waste management systems and educate them about ways of handling such natural adversities. Basically we want to help in building a model community.

This will be a longer term effort that will require volunteers and significant funds. If you know any NGO or Company CSR which is willing to support such an initiative please get in touch with us.

Relief Update

Hundreds of our members have volunteered round the clock in the past few days in supporting our relief efforts. A few snapshots below:

When the capital was drowning, more people’s concentration would be towards the Capital than other places. So as Cuddalore. Most of the villages in Cuddalore District have been affected badly. A village named “Annavelli’ is one among the severely affected areas in Cuddalore. After confirming with our friends, we decided to contribute from our side to this village from the relief materials which have been sent from Bangalore Volunteers. A truck had been dispatched to Annavelli village with Rice, Water, Biscuits, Milk Pockets, Blankets and used cloths. Below are the observations from our Volunteer Sathish, who had visited Annavelli village and distributed the relief materials by hand.

1. Many people are living in huts and still the water is flowing on the streets
2. They are using jutesacks to sleep at nights
3. A friend named Elanchezhian and his family members are helping the village people by collecting materials from other places
4. The materials have been put into a bag and given to each family as a kit
5. People had been asked to provide the Family Card and a token had been issued to collect the kits
6. People are so polite and they stand on the queue to collect the materials
7. Our friend Sathish was roamed around the nearby villages and observed the real situation of the nearby villages
8. Elanchezhiyan and his family members are really doing a great job on supporting and helping the affected people of Annavelli

Thanks a lot to Sathish who accompanied the truck from Chennai to Cuddalore and brought the help from his friend and observed the real situation of the village.

Special thanks to Chennai Trekking Club volunteers, Other volunteers and Jaigopal Karodia School Management for providing the space to stock the relief materials.

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Relief distribution by our volunteers at a poor neighborhood near Perungalatur. Some areas in the city outskirts are still under water.

Ongoing unloading, segregation and distribution of relief materials by hundreds of volunteers at our CTC Relief Center in Tambaram

Our sincere thanks to the management of Jaigopal Garodia National Higher Secondary School in East Tambaram for offering their school premises for the past 4 days to run our relief efforts. As the school has reopened to students we have now shifted our location to Annail Arul marriage hall, near camp road signal

Heartfelt thanks also to hotel GK restaurant who has provided free food to 300+ volunteers in the past 4 days.

Food distribution / Animal rescue by CTC & Blue Cross of Chennai near Ayappathangal flooded by nearby Porur lake

Distribution of relief materials near Tiruporur

Area Survey by our volunteers near Thiruverkadu to Nolambur in North Chennai to identify the real needy/poor who have been badly impacted by flooding of nearby water bodies and rivers in more remote areas where relief has not reached: