Homeless Cancer and Stroke Patient

Story of Vijayalakshmi and Rajan

Humanity First

Vijayalakshmi and Rajan

They have lived in our community in Wayanad all their lives. Vijayalkshmi is 60 and has cancer. Rajan is 70 and is paralysed on the left side of his body after suffering a stroke.
When we first began conversations with them the couple were living in the shack you can see in very poor conditions. Along with their son Vishnu, they had continuously reached out to the local Gram Panchayat for help to improve their housing situation for 3 years with no success.
With the monsoon season fast approaching the likelihood of their shack surviving the rains was not good.
To make matters worse neither Vijayalkshmi nor Rajan has a pension to fall back on.
The family was surviving on the Rs 8,000pm generated trough Vishnu’s job and were already financially stretched.

What we did

Once the grievance was received by us in December 2016, through Fariyaad, a Responsible Indian Mission program of TGG Foundation, the following people got into action:

S.v.Laiju,	TGG Foundation Chairman
Prem Kumar	TGG Foundation Working Committee Member
Anitha Manikandan	Panchayat Ward Member
Kurian Sebastian	Local representative and ex-panchayat member
Vishnu	Son of Vijayalakshmi & Rajan

Firstly we visited the District Collector to update the matter in person. He promised to look into the pension issues and other medical facilities as a priority. He also advised the ward member to take at the matter to the Gram Panchayat level to see what best can be done to provide them funds for completing their house work. The letter submitted to the District Collector’s office was referred to the Block Panchayat. The Block Panchayat official visited the house of Vijayalaskhmi and Rajan to get a first hand information about the report submitted by us. Vijayalakshmi was asked to submit her ration card, application form and other relevant papers to the Village Officer for necessary action.

Humanitarian Ground

As we saw the progress were very slow to get any sort of relief to meet the requirements of a house before the monsoon sets in, Vishnu along with the support of the local community and TGG Foundation decided to change their destiny. TGG Foundations contacted some of the noble souls who immediately came forward and extended their whole hearted support for this cause. It reminds us time and again that we have to be the change we wish to see in our society. We share the joy of elevating one more family from acute poverty.

We thank the Almighty for giving us an opportunity to help the suffering ones.

Our sincere gratitude to the generous people who have upheld humanity.

Name	Company	Place	Amount
Mr. Rajeev Dimri	BMR Associates	Delhi	₹10000
Mr. Ravi Malhotra	S C Kumar & Co.	Delhi	₹20000
Mr. Kannan Natraj Sharma	Personal Gift	Bangalore	₹5000
Mr. Rob Marsh & Ms. Hannah	Personal Gift	Wayanad	Two Doors
RIM Members	TGG Foundation	Wayanad	₹336

Details of Fund Utilization

Purpose	Paid To	Place	Amount
Roofing Material	T. C. Store	Vaduvancahl, Wayanad	₹15980 /- Paid by Cheque
Cement for flooring work	T. C. Store	Vaduvancahl, Wayanad	₹3290/- Paid by Cheque
Labour (flooring & skirting work)	Hari Kumar	Thekkankolli, Wayanad	₹10550/- Paid by Cheque
Electrical work	O. C Store/Nitin	Ambalavayal, Wayanad	₹5516/- Paid by Cheque

Let this be an inspiration for many more people who are waiting to participate in similar cause in future.

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Homeless Cancer and Stroke Patient

Story of Vijayalakshmi and Rajan