Charity give away £ 600,000.00 in total; Issues Xmas-New Year Appeal to support more people…
As one of the largest charity organisation of UK malayalees, British Malayali Charity Foundation has already given an overwhelming amount of about £ 600,000.00 within a short span of period from its inception. Apart from giving a helping hand to the needy people in the Southern Indian state of Kerala-an emigrated community in U.K who support the charity- local charities such as DEC, Cancer Research UK, Diabetes UK, Yorkshire air ambulance, Antony Nolan trust & Llanberis Mountain Rescue were also supported.
British Malayali Charity Foundation has been working with the benevolent support of U.K malayalees by regular appeals to give relief to the needy. Unlike other charities 10 to 15 trustees works voluntarily for the foundation without incurring any expenses or remuneration. The single largest amount of £ 88,700.00 was raised in the history of charity towards ‘Kerala Floods Relief Appeal’, which handed over to Chief Minister of Kerala on 12th November 2018 to assist the people of Kerala in the wake of worst hit monsoon floods in August 2018, which costed the state exchequer more than £ 3 billion and lost over 400 lives. Out of over 50 projects and appeals undertaken, more than 200 people with various life threatening diseases in Kerala, India were supported with funds for their ongoing treatments. During this period, professional education sector of nursing was also considered by announcing scholarship amount of around £ 40,000.00 given to 110 Nursing students in Kerala, India. Not only the individuals or families were in the list but voluntary, humanitarian and other NGO organisations and projects were also supported by the charity. In fact, thousands of people benefitted indirectly through this in India, U.K and other countries.
ICH Kottayam (Govt. Childrens Hospital), Paravur Fire works Tragedy , Kollam, Gandhibhavan, Kollam(A place for destitutes), Nanniyodu Palliative Care project of Govt. of Kerala, support to Prof. T.J Joseph for relief against communal hatred/terrorism & tribal community welfare support throughout Kerala are the projects/institutions in India. Charity showed its presence internationally as well while assisting the people in Nepal by Nepal Earthquake relief fund, African Ebola Relief(through DEC, UK) and also to the Uttarkhand Flood Relief(India).
Over and above this, British Malayali Charity Foundation is always there to support whenever there is a crisis in several families in U.K either due to the sudden demises or life threatening diseases of the near and dear ones. The foundation has also conducted public charity events in U.K such as Skydiving in Nottingham, England during August/September 2017 by the participation of 33 people from several walks of life and raised an amount of £ 42,305.00. Another event of Three peak challenge held in July 2018 raised £ 20988.00 by the participation of 26 challengers..
Now, the charity has issued Christmas-New Year 2018 appeal featuring the cases of ill-fated families in Kerala, India, who are struggling to cope with their daily normal life due to the life threatening diseases of their family members and also because of poor financial background.
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https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-display/showROFundraiserPage?pageId=1002752
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