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Latha and her three children, aged 18,14 and 13 have gone through more misfortunes than most of us can imagine. Latha was working as a kitchen assistant in a hospital. But she suffered severe burns from a kerosene stove explosion, resulting in her leg being amputated eight years back. She has not been able to work since then, and is still in need of medication and treatment about a decade after the mishap. She is also allergic to most medications making it extremely difficult to treat even minor illnesses.

Latha’s husband was working a plantation. He was diagnosed with cancer in 2017 and passed away in February 2018. Now there are no earning members in this family and their basic survival is in danger. Vismaya, the eldest daughter completed her 12th and joined CMA foundation course. She was recently taken to the doctor with severe bleeding and abnormal behavior. She was diagnosed with PCOS and severe depression, possibly the result of her seeing her dad go through cancer and death.

The family is surviving on support from NGOs, neighbours, well-wishers and the church. Annemarie foundation is paying their monthly rent, neighbours and the church is paying for groceries and basic expenses. With help from the block panchayat, 10 cents of land was purchased last year. But they have no money to start any construction. The family is completely broke and unable to build the house, provide medical treatment for Latha and Visamaya or even take care of their basic expenses.

“I realize that every mature tree by photosynthesis absorbs 20kg of CO2 every year. By the same process, each tree lets out about 14kg of O2 every year.”

This is part of the environment oath taken by every member who planted a tree during this tree plantation drive. JCI Nalukody with support from Junior Jaycees, the children’s wing, organized a tree plantation drive on World Environment day. JCI took order from people for different fruit trees, by publishing on social media. Those who gave the order were supposed to have pits ready for planting trees in their compound. JCI members procured the saplings from nurseries and took them to these houses. They planted the trees together and also took an oath promoting awareness of environment protection and importance of trees.

Following the massive success of this program, JCI and MicroCharity are now extending this for the whole of June. For a contribution of Rs.222, a tree will the planted in your name in a house and will be taken care of by the owners. For those of you living in cities with no option to plant a tree in your backyard, this is a golden opportunity to make a difference to mother Earth on this Environment day.

Kochurani Mathew from Changanacherry, Kerala needs our help in repairing their leaking house before the monsoons set in. She is staying with her husband and 2 sons, studying in 11^th and 12^th standards respectively. Her husband met with multiple accidents over the past 3 year and is not able to work anymore. Kochurani takes up small tailoring works at her home, but the income is barely enough to meet their daily expenses and children’s education.

As monsoons started in Kerala, their house started leaking badly to the point that they have to dry the school books in the sun after every rain. The family does not have any other place to move to. They approached JCI Nalukody for financial assistance in repairing the roof. On inspection, they found that the roof tiles were broken in multiple places. And the wooden frame holding the roof has been damaged with age. The frame needs to be replaced with a more durable steel frame and the roof tiles have to be relaid, replacing any broken ones. MicroCharity in association with JCI is taking up this repair work at a total expense of Rs. 70,000.