Flood Relief in South Indian state of Kerala - Update 24

Dear Steemians,

This is the 24^th update post for the Fundition.io project I have created with regards to the fundraising for flood relief activities in the form of the donations to the Chief Minister's Distress Relief Fund in the South Indian State of Kerala.

Here is the link to the Fundition.io project I have created: https://fundition.io/#!/@coolguy123/9a52q7rmd

Updates for last 2 days:

Fundraisers:

In yet another good news for Kerala people, European Union has announced that they have allocated additional 1 million euros of emergency aid to the flood hit Indian state of Kerala.

This additional 1 million euros is in addition to the earlier announcement of 190,000 euros announced last month through Indian Red Cross.

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Indian National Centre for Performing Arts(NCPA) has confirmed that, they will be arranging 2 fundraisers later this month with renowned Indian singer Kailash Kher heading one fundraiser and other one being involved with famous Indian dancers.

It seems that all the performers part of above said fundraiser will perform free of cost to show their solidarity towards recent flood.

In another fundraiser update, the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar has once again handed over a cheque for approximately INR 1 Crore aid as part of the fundraiser from employees of Andaman and Nicobar Islands Administration.

Updates on Relief Camps:

The count of people staying in relief camps has come down to thousands and sources confirmed that currently about 2000 people are there in relief camps.

We can recollect that, more than a million people stayed in the relief camps when the flood occurred in mid August.

Meanwhile, Rubber board chairman in Kerala has confirmed that because of the recent floods, the rubber industry will have a reduced production reduced by one lakh tonnes.

Updates on Donations and Support:

The project has received 656$ out of the designated goal of 1500$ and I would like to confirm once again that, after curation and 50% from remaining amount in the form of SP, the realized amount will be approximately one third of the amount mentioned here.

Below screenshot shows the amount with consolidated support so far.

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