Relief campers set example, cook food for flood-hit in Aluva

Kothamangalam: A small flood relief camp in a library at Pareekkanni in rain-ravaged Kerala's Ernakulam district has set an example as the people stuck there have found time to help others and cook food for residents living in worst-hit areas in Aluva.

The food packets have been dispatched to Aluva in a vehicle on Saturday morning. The camp at Pareekkanni village in Kothamangalam taluk is functioning at Victory Library, where around 12 families are taking refuge after floods ravaged their homes. However, this has not stopped them from helping others who are in a much worse condition.

Aluva region in Ernakulam district is one of the worst-hit areas in Kerala after water level in Periyar River rose unprecedentedly as the shutters of both Mullaperiyar and Idukki dams were opened.

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The people at the Victory Library relief camp are comparatively better off as the floodwaters have already receded from their houses and some of them have already moved back to their homes. When they saw on television channels the plight of people at Aluva, around 50 km from their homes, the group at the relief camp decided to help those suffering.

A group of youths, including Rasheed, Suni, Anas, Benoy and Gibu Paul, collected money for buying food items and they cooked rice and chicken curry for the relief camps in Aluva. According to the youths, as vegetables were not available in the local market, they decided to send rice and chicken curry in packets.

Other charity workers in Kothamangalam region have also joined the efforts to send food to the affected families in the district. According to sources, food and water have been collected from various points in Kothamangalam taluk and a truck loaded with such items has been dispatched to Aluva on Saturday.

The food packets prepared at Victory Library camp have also been sent to Aluva.

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