A team of volunteers attached to the Mar Baselius Kakkad Development Society led by the society director, Christy Thevallil, extended a helping hand to the tribespeople in the Moozhiyar forests near Seethathode on Sunday.
The society team reached the forest interiors of Moozhiyar with packets of food grains, coconut oil, sugar and other provisions for distribution among the nomadic Malampandaram families there on Sunday afternoon.
According to Fr .Thevallil, these tribespeople used to shift from one place to another in the Moozhiyar forests for the past so many years and the society has been supplying them with food packets, provisions and clothes every three months and also during the festival seasons of Onam and Christmas. He said the society supplied them with kits of rice, provision, vegetables, and edible oil worth Rs. 500 each.
The society also provided them with new clothes on the occasion.
The Elanthoor-based society, registered in 1999, has been focusing on tribal development and cancer care, besides extending scholarships to students belonging to economically backward families.
