Cherthala Municipality & Kudumbashree CDS jointly organizes household appliances collection drive for extreme poor as part of Kudumbashree 'Oppam' Campaign Updated On 2023-03-06
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Cherthala Municipality & Kudumbashree CDS jointly organized household appliances collection drive for extreme poor as part of Kudumbashree 'Oppam' Campaign. By way of the collection drive, more than 2000 household appliances were collected for the extreme poor-Destitute- Ashraya Families, which were identified through the ward level survey.
This special activity was organized by Cherthala Municipality as part of the Oppam State Level Campaign to provide livelihood and financial security to the beneficiaries of PMAY (Urban)-LIFE Scheme, beneficiaries of National Urban Livelihood Mission (NULM) being implemented through Kudumbashree in Kerala, urban poor, beneficiaries of Destitute Free Kerala Scheme and Auxiliary group members through entrepreneurship or wage-based employment. The supplies were collected in each ward as per the requirement based on the data collection conducted at the ward level as part of this campaign.
In the first phase of collection, held on 11 and 12 February 2023, more than 2,000 household items including glass, utensils, cooker and cot were collected. About a thousand families donated different utensils. The materials were collected by a group which included ward councilors, NHG members, social workers, CDS members etc. They went to the houses and collected the equipment and stored it at the ward level. Later, these materials were collected in the vehicle of Haritha Karma Sena and were delivered to the municipality. The campaign will come to an end on 15 March 2023.