Schools are continuing with their mop-up of resources for the State’s reconstruction.
Students of Raja Ravi Varma Memorial girls’, boys’, and vocational higher secondary schools have contributed ₹39,130 to the Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund (CMDRF). The girls’ school raised ₹30,000. The school students had also collected relief materials for people living in relief camps.
Government Model Boys Higher Secondary School, Attingal, raised ₹37,000 for the fund. There are nearly 1,700 students across high school, higher secondary, and vocational streams here. The high school students raised ₹12,210, and higher secondary students, ₹23,225.
From the pre-primary to the higher secondary, all sections of Venganoor Model Higher Secondary School raised ₹11,123 for the fund. Besides 1,437 students, teachers, other staff, PTA, and others joined hands for the effort.
₹1 lakh in two days
Three prominent schools in the Neyyattinkara municipal area together collected over ₹1 lakh in two days. Neyyattinkara Government Girls Higher Secondary School alone collected ₹85,000.
The students of Venjaramoodu higher secondary school collected ₹27,265 for the CMDRF.
The high school section, which has 1,414 students, mopped up ₹6,200, and the higher secondary section with 720 students raised ₹21,065.
The money that Devika V.L. had painstakingly collected in her piggy bank for the school tour when she reaches class 10 is now being contributed by her to the Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund (CMDRF).
A Class 9 student of Government Higher Secondary School, Marayamuttam, Devika realised that sharing the troubles of others was more important than her tour. Inspired by her, Alwyn Simon came forward with a small pouch in which he had been saving money to meet any emergency and handed it over to his classteacher.
The school has raised ₹46,378 for the Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund as part of an initiative to mobilise resources for the State’s reconstruction so far. Teachers too contributed ₹25,000 set aside for the Onam programmes and decided to help realise Devika’s dream of the tour after all.
At Government UPS, Kaniyapuram, Nabeel, a Class 6 student, had painstakingly collected every rupee he got to realise his dream of buying a bicycle.
But it did not take long for Nabeel to abandon that dream when he saw reports of hundreds of students going hungry after the floods. Nabeel contributed ₹1,565 to the CMDRF.