Across the globe, nations find themselves in lockdown in order to fight the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), with social work and social care being no exception. During this pandemic, when everybody was safeguarding themselves by remaining at home, the youthful bloods of Prahladaa social service trust was anxious.

As an underlying advance, the individuals from Prahladaa, expanded our whole hearted support in the initiative set forward by Kerala Government named as "Break the chain" by setting hand sanitizers, soap and water in spots of open public gatherings like Thuravoor bus stop and railway station. The sanitizers were procured from “Kerala State Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited” and the arrangement for water was sorted out with the assistance of nearby agencies on a rental premise. This was at first composed as a way to spread mindfulness among the general population about the "Break the chain" battle. This was initiated by Sri. Ranjith, station master- Thuravoor Railway station.

Project information

  • Category: Athijeevanam
  • Beneficiary: People of Cherthala Taluk
  • Project Start date: March, 2020
  • Project Budget: Rs 3,29,382.5/-
  • Fund raised: Rs 3,43,092/-

Prahladaa remained as assistance for the general public, who were adhered without having the option to gain their every day bread, with our “Athijeevanam” program. Despite the fact that the group members began this endeavour as a way to help poor people and outsiders from different states for a brief timeframe, the help and support from the kind hearted people around caused us to broaden our assistance for a significantly longer period of 53 days. Our Athijeevanam Kit Provided to the needy consisted of 10 varieties of vegetables like Onion, Tomato, Carrot etc and 10 varieties of daily essentials like atta, rice powder, biscuits, curry powders, soap etc. At some point, even though we had to stop the initial phase of our service on eighth day by serving the basics to 150 families, we had to start the second stage from the help and support which we got from in and out of Thuravoor.

The members of Prahladaa trust ensured that the help is being given to the ones who truly merit it by legitimately visiting the places of the penniless and surveying the circumstance. We had to work closely with the local governing bodies and Asha workers to identify the needy who are craving for the essential services. Despite the fact that we started serving the fundamentals in plastic covers at the outset, understanding the commitment towards nature, we had invested in our amounts of energy to make paper covers at home and in this manner serving the basics in paper covers.

Prahladaa's colossal exertion to help the occupants of Ananthankari pulled in open consideration and was profoundly valued by the dignitaries like Minister P. Thilothaman, MLA Shanimol Usman, MP A.M Aarif, Kuthiathode Excise Inspector Sujith P S, SFI State Secretary Adv. Manu C Pulikkal, BJP Alappuzha District Secretary Vimal Raveendran, BJP Aroor constituency President Shri Thirunelloor Baiju and numerous others. Aside from Ananthankari, Prahladaa's assistance stretched out to the internal most piece of Pallithode where even vehicles don't reach. Apart from Thuravoor Panchahyat we also started rendering our services to our nearby villages like Kuthiathod and Pattanakkad Panchayaths.

The day of Vishu which came in the middle was not diverse for the members of Prahladaa. We stretched out our help to 15 helpless families on this propitious day. In this manner we were honored to turn into a reason for the joy of 15 families on the auspicious day of Vishu.

The great deeds of Prahladaa social service trust got the trust and love from the Kerala Police Force and Excise office. Kuthiathode Excise range office Inspector Shri Sujith PS and his group voluntarily drew nearer Prahladaa trust for delivering their assistance and backing to the trust. They were a part of circulating the Athijeevanam kit to the drivers in Thuravoor auto and taxi stands. Kerala Police power was not extraordinary. Kuthiathode Circle Inspector Shri Muhammed Shafi and ASI Shri Shaji likewise turned out to be a piece of conveying the Athijeevanam Kit circulation as an image of support. Local administering bodies additionally didn't disheartened us. Kuthiathode Panchayath Vice President Smt. Mary Josy likewise approached for the distribution of Athijeevanam Kit to the poor.

Prahladaa could likewise be a good example for the people to come forward for social causes. Propelled by the activities taken by Prahladaa, many small kids likewise held hands with us in getting ready paper bags staying at home.

Our "Athijeevanam" project which at first planned for giving vegetables and goods to the needy, had to extend the extent of services because of the trust and dependency that the general public kept on Prahladaa social service trust. We started receiving calls from the public in demand for the medicines that they use on a daily basis. Hence aside from vegetables and goods, we began giving medications liberated from cost to the destitute. The necessities and dosages for medicines were validated through prescriptions from doctors. We figured out how to get the medications according to the prescriptions and serve to the destitute by the following day of the solicitation. We have delivered medicines worth Rupees 20000/- to 40-50 families in this short period of time.

This isn't an end. Still we accept that these are the absolute minimum that we can do. We can proceed long ways ahead with the help and love of those kindhearted individuals who whole heartedly upheld us and remained alongside us when we were powerless. We totally served 750 families and spent almost 2.2 lakhs in year 2020 and 1 lakh in 2021.