User:Neenahnair/sandbox

= Anbodu Kochi =

A group that was created by 9 friends(Nuthan Manohar, Neena H Nair, Dhanya Cherian, Arun PR, Muthumani, Ramesh Ranganathan, Bimal Vas, Devi and Sumesh) at the times of unprecedented rains and floods in Chennai in Dec 2015. These friends,after their fun trip from Goa(IFFI 2015), were chatting in their Whatsapp group and the discussion reached the unfortunate conditions of the people in Chennai. It’s on the 3rd of December 2015 night that their private/friends chat group changed into “Anbodu Kochi” group who decided to DOforChennai instead of praying. Facebook group/page was created and the group started to spread the word on collecting relief materials for Chennai.

The next day response was amazing. Cine artist Mrudula Murali, Indrajith, Poornima etc joined the group and more people joined in. The initial collection centre was Me Met Me,the yoga studio of Nuthan Manohar. As entire Kōchi poured in its love unconditionally we had space constraints and the next collection point was Rotary Balabhavan.

On the evening of 5th Dec, the then Ernakulam District Collector Mr. Rajamanikyam IAS dropped in at Rotary Balabhavan. He was awestruck with the volume of supplies that was pouring in and he immediately offered all his support. Also he did help the team to have a better and bigger centre at Regional Sport Centre(indoor stadium ), Kadavanthra which helped the to accommodate more volunteers and relief materials.

The initial target of sending 50000 relief kits went to dispatch of more than 250 tonnes of relief materials; including drinking water. There were volunteers from across the state who were willing to accompany each truck to Chennai even in those apprehensive time.

Today team AK is a group of more than 10k followers and hundreds of faces who are really working on ground. The team is being guided by present District collector Mr. Md Safirulla.

The team has done multiple projects like EnteKulam Ernakulam(revival of ponds throughout the District, Muthe Ponne(summer class for the less privileged kids), Pa-Pa( padhikkaam padhippikkaam for collecting the school materials for the deserving kids) etc

The team was mobilised again for 2018 floods for kerala and ensured maximum materials supply to reach the needy area from the contributors across the world.