NGOs From Across The Country Are Helping Kerala Flood Victims To Rebuild Homes Again
Around 650 temporary shelters have been coming up in the district with the help of NGOs, including from those outside the state.
Wayanad has been making remarkable strides in providing housing solutions for flood-victims which include innovative and low-cost temporary shelters and rapidly deployable permanent houses.
Around 650 temporary shelters have been coming up in the district with the help of NGOs, including from those outside the state. Also, plans are afoot by a Kozhikode-based NGO to build around 60 prefabricated permanent houses at a cost of Rs 4.5 lakh each, the prototype of which was handed over on Tuesday.
The district administration has assigned the task of building the free temporary shelters mainly to the Bengaluru-based NGO Project Vision, and SEEDS (Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society), an NGO-based in New Delhi. The first set of around a dozen shelters has already been handed over to flood victims.
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Project Vision has been building 328 temporary shelters in the district with 252 of them in the worst hit Panamaram panchayat. The shelters, which have150 sq. ft. of built up space, are made of Trafford GI sheet for roofing supported by steel pipes. The front and back portion of the shelters will be covered with bamboo.
The cost of each shelter comes to around Rs 20,000 with the beneficiaries and local panchayat chipping in with manual labour.
Sibu George, national coordinator of Project Vision, said the shelter can be built in a day. He said around 450 such shelters were built by the organisation in Nepal after the earthquakes in 2015.
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¡°We have handed over 10 shelters in Panamaram and the remaining shelters will be completed within a month. The interior could be hot but residents can use hay or palm leaves on the roof,¡± he added.
The shelters being built by SEEDS have wooden walls along with galvanised sheet roofing.
¡°We are using of locally available timber for walls to minimize heat. A unit with a total built-up space of around 260 sq. ft. would cost around Rs 60,000,¡± Ajaya Kumar V, project manager of SEEDS, said .
¡°We are looking it as transitional shelters which can be used for a maximum of one year until permanent houses are built for them by the government,¡± said district collector A R AjayaKumar.
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A two- bedroom 560 sq. ft. house built by Kozhikode based NGO, Thanal in association with Urvi Foundation was handed over to Kalathingal Fathima of Aram Mile in Pozhuthana panchayat on Tuesday.
The house has a four feet high elevated floor design to make them flood proof and uses cement fibre board for walls and floor and tress roof and clay tiles for roofing. The structure was completed within 15 days at a cost of Rs 6.25 lakh, Dr V Idrees, chairman of Thanal said .
