The collectorate hosted a caricature campaign with a difference on Tuesday.
Visitors to the district headquarters were turned into subjects for caricatures, which were then sold to them in return for a contribution to the Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund (CMDRF) to help out those hit by the recent floods.
The event, Draw for Kerala, was organised jointly by the Cartoon Club, a service organisation and an online combine as a means to mobilise funds towards CMDRF. When people who had dropped in at the collectorate for various reasons found time to participate in the caricature campaign, 200-odd caricatures were born between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Artists handed over ₹20,000 mobilised through the campaign to the District Collector in the evening. Five artists led by Ibrahim Badusha, known as ‘cartoon man’, participated in the campaign.
