Members of the Rotary Club of Chennai Kilpauk will leave on Sunday 23rd morning to Marakkanam about 100 Kms from Chennai.
We will distribute here 5 Metric Tonnes of rice.
Once the need (food) is taken care of we hope to bring smiles to their faces.
Needs are to keep humans alive but wants when fulfilled make people happy.
This is what we are going to do.
Thanks to the generosity of fellow Rotians’ Rotary Clubs
(Chip Ross, Art McCullough, Douglas Grose)
We will carry with us 3 Televisions sets for three villages in the Marakkanam area, these TVs will serve over 300 families. These are 29 inch TVs which will be installed in a community hall for the benefit of the entire village.
We will also be taking with us
Cricket Kits, Footballs, Tennikoit rings, throw balls, skipping ropes and tennis balls, carrom boards for children.
50 AM/FM radios have been purchased and will be distributed.
I am rather excited about Sunday because these kids have been asking for these cricket sets and toys and have not been getting it. They have stopped hoping and I want to see them when they get it. As far as they go the adult world has forgotten them, and this is going to change on Sunday.
Our first water treatment plant has been installed in Karaikkal and within the next few days 2 more will be installed.
This evening at our Club meeting we had invited the village headman of a village we visited and distributed our family building kits a few weeks ago. He tells us that many families have been displaced and while emergency relief measures have given them food and clothing, it has not addressed many other needs such as safe drinking water, mental trauma, stress, deliang with children and so on. He comes from an area which was affected very badly. Entire villages wiped out.
You can expect updates soon on what we are doing and planning
Bye for now
Hari Ratan
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