'Heartbroken', tech major Apple donates Rs 7 crore for Kerala flood relief; asks customers to donate to Mercy Corps

Under the influence of the devastating flood of Kerala state, the US technology giant Apple announced that it will donate 700 million rupees to ongoing rescue activities on Saturday.

"We are suffering from the devastating flood of Kerala State.Apple donates 700 million rupees to support the life saving work.Mercy Corps India and the Prime Minister's Distress and Relief Fund Working for displaced people Work.School, "Cupertino-based iPhone maker states in a statement

Apple also added a support banner to its homepage as well as the App Store and iTunes Store to allow customers to donate to Mercy Corps.

"Also, we enabled iTunes and the App Store donation button so customers who would like to donate to Mercy Corps can do this easily," Apple said.

Apple customers can donate $ 5, $ 10, $ 25, $ 50, $ 100 or $ 200 to Mercy Corps using credit and debit cards.

417 people were killed by rain and floods, and 2,787 people began to return home from the relief camp at 2,787 evacuation centers.

Prime Minister of Kerala, Pinariyi Vijayan said on Friday that the number of deaths began since the start of the monsoon rain on May 29, but it was reported that the August 8 storm caused the worst flood in the state of the last century ing. People are killed or injured.

Last week after assessing the situation, Prime Minister Narendora Modi announced a subsidy of 50 rupees of rupees in addition to the 10 billion rupees announced by the interior minister Rajnath Singh. In addition to the PM Relief Fund and Vijayang, we personally donated 100,000 rupees to the CMRDF, and ministers, officials, celebrities, and people from every state's donation made a donation to provide relief to flood affected countries . 2. Prime Minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal announced that he will offer 1 billion rupees to flood affected countries and announced that he will provide all state preference AAP priorities and parliamentary salary for one month. Priorities of work with members of Congress followed this and promised to donate a monthly salary. Prime Minister Bihar 's Nitish Kumar also announced support of 1 billion rupees, similarly Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik announced that it would add 500 rupees to the previously approved 500 rupees, 245 firefighters announced their ship Carrying.

"We are suffering from the devastating flood of Kerala State.Apple donates 700 million rupees to support the life saving work.Mercy Corps India and the Prime Minister's Distress and Relief Fund Working for displaced people Work.School, "Cupertino-based iPhone maker states in a statement

"Sentimental" major Apple donated 700 million rupees to Kerala's flood relief and asked the customer to donate to Mercy Corps

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Kerala on Saturday and announced plans to provide refugee relief and reconstruction with a flood of 50 billion rupees known as "prime minister Pinarly · Villyan" since 1924 Serious flood. "Relief funds are released from the National Disaster Response Fund. Rajnath Singh Federal Interior Minister previously announced that he would provide 10 billion rupees aid to the countries affected by the flood. According to the Disaster Prevention Law of 2005, "disaster" means disaster, accident, disaster or serious incident in every area caused by natural disasters or human injuries, human injury or property damage caused by accident or negligence I will point it. To destroy or destroy the environment, its nature or extent exceeds the ability of the affected community to cope

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