Chennai flood: Hyundai lends a helping hand

HMIF, the CSR arm of Hyundai motor India limited, swung into action immediately to help the flood affected. 

HMIF handed over 5,000 packets (4 chapathis and side dish, 1 packet milk biscuits, 2 bananas) on Dec 4 and 6,000 food packets (2 Jam buns and 1 box of rice dish (puliyogare & chips) on Dec 5 to the flood-relief teams set-up by the Tamil Nadu Government.

These food packets have been airdropped to needy in the flooded areas in and around the Chennai city by Air Force Personnel operating from Tambaram Air Base.

Today, Young Key Koo –Managing Director, HMIL and Mr. Vinayagam G, President, United Union of Hyundai Employees (UUHE) along with  HMIF team members and HMIL volunteers visited Vengadu and Nemily villages in Sriperumbudur and distributed essential items like clothing for an entire family, blankets, towels and 20 litre water cans to 200 families.

Similar items will be distributed in the villages of Perinjampakkam, Ottankaranai and Thathanur followed by distribution of utensils and provisions to sustain the families for 10 days. The relief measures will  benefit 1000 families in these most affected villages and is expected to be completed by Dec 14th 2015.  Paucity of essential materials is hampering relief work.

Once the rains and the water recedes, HMIF  will conduct a complete sanitization campaign for these same villages. Cleaning the entire village with tractors, mosquito fogging, spraying bleaching powder and cleaning water bodies are some of the activities on the anvil, to help the villages return to normalcy.

Commenting on the relief measures, YK Koo, Managing Director, Hyundai Motor India Limited “ It is really sad to witness this intensity of the disaster. This state gave us our home and this is just a small gesture from our side to the people of Tamil Nadu.  I salute the people of Tamil Nadu for their resilience in fighting this calamity.”