MGR Thitu: Update by Nanda Kishore

I have been speaking to people in the Killai village trying to gather information about the current situation at MGR Thitu. I got this information from the coordinator of AID India at the KILLAI VILLAGE CAMP (the marriage hall). His name is Mr. Vanjinathan.
The villagers have somehow generated the funds to buy the land which was allocated to them. I hope everyone remembers that they were initially trying to get that money! The government is now working on building houses for these folk, but as usual, the pace is slow. The villagers are still staying in the Killai Marriage hall.
They have a shortage of rice now. Immediate need is for rice. Any suggestions?

Also, the boats and nets part is also at a standstill. The government has promised to give them boats and has already earmarked 2371 crores for this. But the money will take time to reach them. There is also an issue between the FM & the CM because the FM announced that the relief money will be done through the public sector banks! It might take time for the money to reach them.

There is also a problem in trying to get the children back to school. We may remember that their only school (inside the village) which teaches till standard 5 was completely damaged. The education front also needs some help. The details on the kind of help required will be available only by the evening.

But the requirement for nets still remain. They are still maintaining that the requirement for nets will resolve a good lot of their problems. From what I could gather we still have to work on the nets front. And if possible, try and get some rice in the meanwhile. But immediate funding is going to be a problem.
-- by Nanda Kishore

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Conversion attempts in the time of grief

This article: is about conversion attempts by some missionaries of the villagers suffering the aftermath of the Tsunami.
I have heard in my marketing classes that nothing sells as good as sex and religion. And here we have some people trying to sell religion! I am only tempted to believe this story considering that it comes from Shoba Warrier - a journalist of repute. Your views?

Posted by Nanda Kishore Sethuraman

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My Future in a Pyre

My Future in a Pyre: "My Future in a Pyre". An article by Dilip D'Souza. A columnist / blogger (http://dcubed.blogspot.com/ and http://desimediabitch.blogspot.com/ and of course http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com/) has written this heart wrenching article in Rediff. Till date I had different opinions about most of the organisations he has mentioned in this article. Mr. D'Souza - I change my opinion. Each one of these organisations that Dilip has mentioned in this article stands for different ideals. A case in point is DYFI, RSS & the various Christian missionaries. But they have all come together when the situation demanded. Irrespective of their organisations' ideals & standpoints, these humans have come together for a common goal. I guess the human in them stood above their organisations which is a triumph by itself.

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Chidambaram Trip for Relief – My views

There are certain points about this trip, which I would have to reiterate. There are certain issues, which I have to highlight. There are my own views, which would be a part of this report. So if there are any repetitions of what Suman / Anita have mentioned in their report, I would request you to just read on and get your own holistic view of the situation.

Sambandam, a fellow customer at the tea stall at B. Mutlur (stands for Bhuvanagiri Mutlur because there is another village called C. Mutlur where C means Chidambaram) reiterated the information we had initially gathered at AID India office in Chennai. As mentioned by Kiruba in his first post, Anu of AID India, was more than forthcoming to help us with information and they are doing a phenomenal job in the coastal regions. The list of villages he mentioned to be worst affected included MGR Thittu, Chinna Vaikkal, Pillamedu, Pazhayar, Thoduvam, Thirumullaivasal, Koozhaiyar, Nayakkarkuppam and the list goes on. These are villages that fall under the Cuddalore District. Sambandam also mentioned that there are villages where no one was spared.

My initial report and the photo essay gave a brief explanation of the Killai village and the fact that we overshot the way to Muzhukkuthurai & MGR Thittu. We decided to get to MGR Thitu because everyone we spoke to mentioned this village’s name and confirmed that this was one of the worst hit. Also, AID India wanted to get more information about the village for them to coordinate as much relief as possible. So we headed in that direction.

Suman had explained about the conversation with the guy in the Ambulance and the way the waves had caused destruction to the farmlands also. A picture is worth a thousand words. I made the mistake. While I took a couple of pictures of the greenery on the way to Killai, I don’t know why I missed a picture of the farmland destructed by the seawater by moving so deep inside! It would have showed the stark difference that the water has made to the land. It would be a long time before the land becomes cultivable and there is absolutely no one who has talked about the water causing destruction to the property of these farmers.

Anyways, I would like to bring to light my conversation with Anbazhagan – the boatman who took us to MGR Thitu and with Ranjith – the son of the MGR Thitu village headman. Anbazhagan gave me a few numbers, which was very disturbing. There were 180 families in that village. (I also got a list of the families from that village and it actually came to 177 to be very precise). The village would have had 750 people of which Anbazhagan mentioned that 64 were dead. Five persons are still missing. There were nearly 60 mechanised fishing boats (read boats and not launches) in that village. None of these boats, I repeat, NONE of these boats are now in useable condition. Using them with repairs can prove equally fatal. Also, the boats were unattended to till date (for obvious reasons). This means that the salt water would have seeped through the engines. These boats have also been lying in the beach / on top of houses / between the bushes and has been exposed to direct sunlight. This has caused the engine parts to rust. Since these fisher folk don’t trust banks for whatever reasons, they also lost money as cash to the waves. They had to choose between grieving for the dead and salvaging lost property. Being humans that they are, they chose to grieve and this has led them to further misery of not being able to salvage their property – whatever is left of it!!!

They now have two boats – one mechanised and the other a little larger and deeper than a catamaran which has to be rowed, which can be used only to get to the village and back. These two are only passenger boats. These two survived because they were at a good distance from the shore. The villagers lease this out to one family on a yearly basis for approximately INR 10000/- (approximately 212USD). The villagers use these boats to commute between the village and the mainland. The villagers pay Rs.2/- (.042 USD) while the visitors / tourists pay around Rs.10/- (22cents) for a round trip.

I would like to take a small digression to explain my take about the fishing boats. By boats, I mean small fibre / wooden boats which are larger than the catamarans and can hold upto a tonne and a half of catch. They are machine propelled equipments and they generally use Maruti / Yamaha engines of a slightly higher capacity to propel the boat into the deep sea. These boats cost approximately INR.60000/- (approximately 1280 USD) and they are then fitted with the engines to propel them. These engines cost around INR.35000/- (approximately 750 USD). In all, a fishing family needs around 2000 USD to start a life and actually be prosperous.

On our way back, I had a chat with Ranjith (son of the MGR Thitu village headman) and a few others (Malaiarasu, Balaiah, Madhiyazhagan) to assess the current situation and their needs. The people from the village are well off. Ranjith has a mobile and that is not the only sign of their prosperity. You may notice in the photo essay the kind of articles that was damaged and the kind of houses they used to live in. Most of them had constructed pucca houses and a few of them had dish antennas. The village has electricity obviously, but what startles is that they used to have satellite phones included to their list of properties since recently. The telecom revolution has actually touched every part of the country and the fact that we could make / receive calls on our mobiles from the village stands guarantee. Every other house had a wet grinder (to make typical South Indian dough / batter), mixer grinder (for dry grinding of spices), Refrigerators, Televisions and all that would constitute a prosperous household even in a city. In fact they would not have suffered the Conditional Access System (CAS) which Chennai suffers from, which means that they would have got all the channels that I don’t get to see now a days including HBO, STAR Movies, Discovery & National Geographic. If I had visited this place earlier, I would have probably felt jealous because they get to live in a beach resort with all the facilities all their lives. I now think different. This just goes to say that the loss to their property is even worse!

The 177 families had around 60 boats. A few people owned these boats, but the rest of the fishermen worked along with them and they shared the catch in whatever proportion they agree upon! They now have lost their land because the government does not want them to stay in that village, because of its proximity to the sea. They have been asked to move to the mainland and a 20 acre land has already been allotted to them. But they have to pay for it. It would cost around 10 lakhs for the villagers to buy that land and they don’t have money. The government has told them that they would be given constructed houses in the allocated land, but they would have to buy the land for availing this. The fishermen are in a fix. Reasons? A. They don’t want to move inland, because as Suman had mentioned, it would become a huge logistics problem for them to haul their catch to the markets. B. Their financial situation does not allow them to buy even the allocated land!

I would like to make a special mention about Mr. Gagandeep Singh Bedi – the collector of Cuddalore. I understand from the villagers and from the relief workers in that area that this man has done a phenomenal job. Everyone confirmed that the INR.1,00,000/- for the deceased was disbursed in less than three days to their families. Of course, the money has not been given yet to the families of the five missing villagers, but I still think that it is an outstanding job done, given the current set of resources. The INR.4,000/- for ALL families and ration (includes 60kg rice, some cereals, kerosene etc) has also been disbursed to all the recognised families. KUDOS to that man for actually making the official machinery work overnight. It requires extraordinary talent and he has just exhibited that!

There are cases where some families have not been recognised and the villagers are actually so united that they distributed the funds and the rations, equally between all the families. I am not really sure if I would have exhibited that kind of magnanimity given the kind of situation. My respects to all those people who shared not just their grief, but what they got as relief material. It takes a lot of strength to do what these people did! Just enough proof that they have the strength to face life despite the situation.

On my way back from the village I promised myself to keep reminding about the public for as long as I can, till as many of these affected victims roll their way back on the track of life. Public memory is very short and Media is a very ugly tribe. They will roll from one scoop to another and we can already see that very few people are talking about these victims. And in due time, there wouldn’t be many or any. No one talks about 1984 revolt (barring a film called Amu); people have forgotten Bhuj; and Kumbakonam is now known only as the temple town and not as the killer town where fire swallowed more than 80 kids. I wanted to do my might by reminding people about this for as long as possible. Life – at the end of it – will move on, but these victims need a hand, a shoulder and a push to get it back on track. It would take a long time for sure.

The villagers are still in the process of negotiating with relief agencies and the government to try and get their lives back on the wheels, but for now, I think that no one has a clue of where to hit the arrow so they get the result. They have at least been able to spell their needs and they are doing that with everyone! The situation is “Whoever gives Whatever – may they be blessed”. Little wonder that the fisher folk from Pillamedu (represented by village headman Govindan) were in tears when this little drop in the form of nets (collected by Anita, Arun & Joshi of Bangalore) fell their way. This sure is a little drop and there is certainly a long way to go.

After getting back to office, I was speaking to one of the volunteer coordinators (Vibha Ravindran) of AID India. She mentioned a view, which I think I have to echo here. “It is now that the relief work would become doubly difficult. With the media not talking as much about the current situation, the task would be Herculean to get funds, volunteers and material to ensure that the livelihood is back for these people.”

At the risk of sounding dramatic / over-reacting, I am making this appeal:

Please do not forget this incident. If you still want to… delay the amnesia by a couple of years at least. It is not a single man task. And it is not only about MGR Thitu. There is much more to be done and it is a long hard way. It would be better if the job were done in a coordinated way. “Bloggers of the world. Unite!”

Nanda Kishore Sethuraman, 18th January 2005.

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Photo essay of the trip to MGR Thitu - An affected village

A few of us from Bangalore and chennai went to Chidambaram and surrounding villages to survey the damage and provide relief material for the affected fisherfolk. This is a picture essay of our trip to that village. Corresponding reports will be provided by myself, Suman, Anita Bora & Kiruba. The reports should be available very soon.

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Chidambaram Trip to assess the damage and provide relief

People who have followed this blog would have known by now that a few bloggers from Bangalore & Chennai were out for the weekend on a field trip to Chidambaram to assess the damage and to provide some relief material. Well, here is the preliminary update. The trip has been completed successfully and it was a mixture of happiness and sorrow. To dramatize this, I can say that we could actually see 'Agony & Ecstacy'. The team comprised of: Anita Bora, Arun, Joshi, Suman & Chitra from Bangalore. The Chennai team had Nanda Kishore, Kiruba Shankar & Shravan (Kiruba's cousin who exhibited phenomenal enthusiasm in making it for the trip and contributing in his own way. All this for a 11th standard school boy.)

Agony
We had visited a few villages near Chidambaram town. The villages are: Killai Relief camp, Muzhukkuthurai & MGR Thittu. We first went past the Killai camp and came back to find out the exact way to Muzhukkuthurai & MGR Thittu. Muzhukkuthurai is part of the main land, while MGR Thittu is a small island off Muzhukkuthurai. Muzhukkuthurai was affected badly because of the sea water entering the land and damaging property that lived closer to the shore. But MGR Thittu was the worst hit, because the water actually crossed MGR Thittu, submerged it entirely and then reached Muzhukkuthurai. Loss of life was pathetic and loss of property and livelihood is not comprehensible. Pictures taken are yet to be uploaded and detailed reports on the same would be put up tomorrow.

Ecstacy
A game of cricket with some of the affected children. Kiruba getting back to his early instincts and exhibiting examples of Darwin's theory by hanging down a tree (upside down). An hour long session with kids aged between 3-7 years where they painted using crayons on drawing sheets, sang tamil rhymes (which we heard for the first time) danced with Chitra Suman and went on an unusual human merry-go-round with Kiruba!!! It was good to see them smile forgetting for a moment that most of these kids had lost someone or the other from their family and were part of the mass burials that was carried out! And finally, it brought a sense of satisfaction when we handed over fishing nets worth Rs.20000/- to the villagers from Pillamedu (village head Mr. Govindan who lost his 19 year old son to the killer wave received it on behalf of his village). The smile in their faces will linger in our minds for a very long time. I promise to show you those smiles by tomorrow (the pictures are yet to be uploaded).

Not to forget the ADVENTURE.
Kiruba's car!!! Man.. what a piece of antique!!! It always fails at the wrong time! It had a flat on 14th night somewhere near Chidambaram and while coming back, some part of the car (most probably the engine as guessed by Suman Kumar) moved from its original position to be found hanging! The car refused to move and we had a terrific hindi movie climax type chase to catch a bus before the toll plaza at Pondicherry! We reached back safely.

Suman would also give his reports very soon and I would put up the pictures by tomorrow. I will also publish my detailed report of the conversations we had with the villagers and the situation in the villages we visited. I am fairly sure that I would go back to those villages in the near future. I am sure everyone who made it to those villages would! Apart from working on the report for AID India (who gave the names of these villages to us) and a report for this blog, I think that there is one more huge task that lies in front of us. NETS, NETS, NETS & BOATS for these villagers. To help them get their life and livelihood back and to achieve it as soon as possible would be the biggest challenge. Achievable, but huge. Hope that it doesn't take too long before they get back their lives, at least for the ones who survived.

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E-mail Posting Disabled

I have disabled the post via e-mail feature on this site due to spamming. Sorry but I had no choice. E-mail me if you want to publish information here.
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Tsunami Relief Project

I want to share a unique Tsunami Relief Project:

http://www.reliefproject.org

The Tsunami Relief Project is a collaborative effort between, celebrities, business leaders, authors, and individiual donors.  Dozens of well-known business experts and celebrities have agreed to donate one hour of their time in format of teleseminar, webinar, or personal coaching sessions.  People who donate via the Tsunami Relief Project will have exclusive access to these events and content.  It is a unique way to contrinbute to the effort, while at the same time receiveing something very valuable as a thank you gift.

So far, the list of VIPs includes:

# Mark Victor Hansen co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul and Honorary CoChair of the Disaster Relief Project
# Bill McDermott CEO of SAP America
# Tom Peters author of In Search of Excellence and Famous Management Consultant
# Frank Maguire top leadership expert and Fed-Ex founding Senior Executive
# Ken Blanchard author 'One Minute Manager’ and famous management consultant
# Pat Williams SVP of the NBA Orlando Magic author of 35 books top  speakers
# Jay Abraham, one of America's leading sales and marketing strategists
# Ken Kragen, creator of 'We Are the World and Hands Across America'
# Les Brown author of Live Your Dreams, and It’s Not Over Until You Win
# Al and Laura Ries Author of The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding
# and more

For more info, see http://www.reliefproject.org

Regards,

Mark

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Urgent request for help from Library of Life and The IFRC

Dear Sir/Madam,

 

I have been deeply touched by your blog’s coverage of the recent tragedy in Asia. The way ‘Tsunami Help India’ has helped to make the outside world aware of the plight of the affected people, is highly commendable.

 

I am contacting you with a request for your kind help from the Library of Life; a website (www.libraryoflife.org) whose aim is to compile the life stories of millions of people around the world, thereby creating the world’s first universal record of life that lasts forever. The website raises funds for the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and in this time of need they have asked us to create a living memorial to all the victims of this tragedy. This will be done through photographs, text, film, sound and scanned documents on the site.

 

The Library of Life, in association with the IFRC, is inviting all those whose lives have been affected by the tragedy to create a free memorial to commemorate their loved ones, or post their own experiences as a record for all future generations. We have also set up an online ‘Tsunami Book of Condolence’, which we are inviting the public to sign and express their feelings on this terrible disaster.

 

In order for this great humanitarian project to be successful it is essential that we have as much information and reach as many people as possible. We therefore, kindly request that you give us your assistance by contributing to the Library of Life through posting your experiences and opinions directly on our site, or allowing us to put some information from your site on our own. Furthermore, if you would be prepared to put a message on your blog about us and a link from your blog to our website, that would be wonderful. In return we will happily give you a reciprocated link from our own site to yours, as well as a complementary membership.   

 

Please have a look at our site and contact me at henry.hardy@libraryoflife.org and let me know your thoughts. I look forward to hearing from you.

 

Kind regards,

 

Henry Hardy

www.libraryoflife.org

 

 

Henry Hardy

Library of Life

46 Berkeley Square

London W1J 5AT

Tel: 0207 598 4063

Fax: 0207 598 4071

 

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Field Report from AID India

I got this report from AID India, which has been doing phenomenal work in the unreacheable areas of Tamil Nadu where Tsunami hit the coast. I promise that the perspectives we hold about a lot of things will change if you read this report. Salutations to all the selfless volunteers who hae been doing tremendous work in these villages. The list starts from people who left their jobs (daily wage volunteers) to some software professionals from Bangalore and Chennai who rolled up their sleeves to render service to the affected. The report also gives the current requirements and the modus operandi of the organisation. I just have to add one more line to all those volunteers - "TAKE A BOW, I salute you all."

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Info. you can add on your Blog

"We along with the Akshara Advertising agency has launched a website
aiming at helping children in TN to get back to their school. As you
aware of the fact that, they lost all the things, we tried to help
them with basic School support materials."

This programme is titled as Help a Children get back to School.

You can view the website at http://www.e-akshara.com/tsunamiaid/

Any queries let me know
--
Narain [http://www.360in.com] -

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Three year old awaits her parents

Newindpress.com - Coastal Calamity: "Tsunami tragedy: Three-year-old awaits her parents". I have been browsing on this subject for quite some time now in all media and I am finding this report only in this site. I thought it would help to spread the word around. Hope this helps! The girl is still in Nagapattinam and she claims to be from Bangalore.
Posted by Nanda Kishore Sethuraman

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Indonesia restricts Aceh aid work

Indonesia's army is to restrict relief workers from reaching remoter parts of the tsunami-hit province of Aceh. BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Indonesia restricts Aceh aid work
-Suman

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'Now there's a bigger flood of aid'

'Now there's a bigger flood of aid': "'Now there's a bigger flood of aid'". It is really remarkable how the common man has risen to the occasion to ensure that his brethern is taken care of. And as Amit asks, how long will this be sustained. That is something which remains to be seen. There are programmes worked by various organisations and individuals (Vivek Oberoi leading as an example) where specific villages have been adopted and provided for. Dr. Shilpa Govardhan in her earlier report in this same blog mentioned that the fishermen now need their livelihood back and not just the next meal. Many are of the same opinion and there are, I am sure, many working towards it. For now, it is good to see and hear that there is a human in every human and (s)he has to be saluted. KUDOS

Posted by Nanda Kishore Sethuraman

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Some Solace?

11 tribals rescued from A & N Island after 15 days: "11 tribals rescued from A & N Island after 15 days". Should they be called HEROES? For some 11 tribals were rescued after 15 days after the killer waves hit this part of the world. We train our body and mind to be survivors of the concrete jungle but 'out there' the game is different. It needed the guts and pure survival instincts of a man living with the nature than a man who tries to conquer it. KUDOS to those survivors.

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You are needed now

When all is "normal" again, and millions of people are back to scrambling for food and jobs and drinking water in sub-human conditions, will we still care? Asks Amit on his India Uncut blog.

The relief effort has barely started. We need more hands now, more than ever. For the TV channels and the press, the story is stale, but for millions of others it is a nightmare that'll haunt them forever. Sending money or food is only emergency-response. If we need to get the victims back on track and help them move on, we need help from professionals from every imaginable domain. Now is the time to double-up and explore how technology can be used to speed-up rehab. Surprisingly no one is talking about post-traumatic stress (not just of the victims but also of the relief workers). If you are a psychiatrist tell us how to handle it.
It could be a solar-powered rice cooker, or a fiber-glass boat, or an economically viable water purifier; It could be anything. Whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever you do, just think for a moment: 'How can I help?'. And trust me, there are a million ways you can.

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Is Velupillai Prabhakaran alive?

Newindpress.com - Coastal Calamity: "LTTE chief Prabhakaran among those missing or dead by tsunami?" This may well be the worst time to conduct politics, but the Sri Lankan Radio made a statement which it subsequently retracted yesterday! Sounded a little far fetched, but could it be true? But Prabhakaran has also not appeared in public since the incident. Very unlikely of him considering that he is very close to his subjects! Anyone from Sri Lanka who can throw more light on this?

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This is ugly: Caste raises its ugly hood in relief camps

NewIndPress Story
The Tsunami did not discern upper caste or lower caste. Disgusting!
(Thanks Shankar for the link)

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Looking for his family

Boy
Originally uploaded by simba295.

Hello All, I got this picture on my e-mail. This boy about two years is missing his parents because of the Tsunami. Noone knows where he is from. If anyone can identify this kid (about 2 years) please get in touch with the numbers: 076-249400-4 ext. 1336, 1339 or e- mail : info@phuket-inter-hospital.co.th. Please link this to as many 'missing' sites as possible. Thanks - Nanda Kishore Sethuraman

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Kottivakkam beach in Chennai

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Originally uploaded by simba295.

I had been to the beach on Sunday last and saw activity. People are coming back to the beach. But it looked like they were cautious! Check these images.
Nanda

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Important

People when you send an e-mail to sumank.tsunami[at]blogget[dot]com
1) It is published on this site
2) I can't see you e-mail ids, so I can't reply

So, please write to suman[at]sumankumar[dot]com if you want to talk to me. And, send a mail (from a web based mail, do not use Outlook or Lotus Notes or some e-mail client) to sumank.tsunami[at]blogget[dot]com to publish information on this site.
I got this today (for this site)

Hi Sumank, We (me and the people in Cc) would like to volunteer our service for the relief operations. I saw your blog today and thought of asking about it. We would be able to do this service tommorow and the day after i.e 8th and 9th of this month. If you are in need of volunteers please write back to us. Awaiting your reply.
-Raghavan

Raghavan write to my personal id. I can't see your mail ids.

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A phone call saved an entire village

The Hindu : Front Page : A phone call saved an entire village: "CHENNAI, DEC. 31. Fortunately, in the midst of the many heartrending stories of death and loss, chronicles of courage and miraculous survival are surfacing everyday: the latest being the tale of four coastal villages in the Union Territory of Pondicherry, which escaped obliteration thanks to quick thinking and sheer luck. A story that we should not miss! This is a live example of the sheer grit & tenacity of humans to survive. More so, an example of simple presence of mind"
Nanda Kishore Sethuraman, Chennai

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Nakul Dhawan of Art of Living Writes

Nakul Dhawan, another AOL teacher writes:
A lot of food, clothes and other material has reached a lot of places. But the people are in a state where it does not matter what we give them. They'll take anything just because it is being given freely.... without realising if they need it or not. That's why we are seeing clothes all over the place in these areas. Also, there is tension over the issue of who got how much among them. Once the distribution starts, there is no order, no rule to be honoured.

In this situation, what Art of Living gives them directly affects the state of their mind. I was myself surprised at the response we got after a half hour session of bhastrika and meditation..... despite the language barrier (we had a translator, that's why we need people who know tamil). They themselves said they were feeling calmer and at peace. An emotional loss cannot be compensated by any amount of material given to them. A few ladies who had lost family members and were going around collecting whatever was being distributed because they didn't know what else to do. We gathered a few of them alongwith some men and started. Later others joined when they learnt a "prayer" session was going on. One lady was sitting completely
expressionless, holding her head. She did not even do anything properly.
But when so many people meditate in one place, it changes the atmosphere, which in turn affects individuals in that place. She softened up when we started speaking to her. A few cried as they told their stories and became emotionally lighter.
This has to be done alongwith the material support being provided, which is also very important. Art of Living has been recognised as THE organization to provide trauma relief. All we need to do is be available.... just being channels for Grace to flow through. We don't even know What we are carrying. But we have been empowered to shower It wherever we go. Let It reach everyone.
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Tsunami Relief Aid

I am writing to ask you to post a link on your Web site to our Tsunami Relief page (www.uscommittee.org/tsunami.html).
Because natural disasters are reproductive health disasters, the United States Committee for United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is supporting Earthquake and Tsunami Relief especially in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives.
UNFPA is providing life-saving medicines and supplies to enable pregnant women to deliver safely. UNFPA is also providing emergency obstetric care and establishing temporary health facilities.
Indonesia: 100,000+ people living in temporary shelters/camps. UNFPA has so far provided 4,500 hygiene kits and 604 different types of reproductive health kits. Undertaking urgent joint assessment on reproductive health needs with Ministry of Health.

The Maldives: 1/3 of population now reliant on relief for essential food and water. Health infrastructure/services severely disrupted, some completely destroyed. UNFPA has deployed basic reproductive health kits such as clean delivery supplies, blood transfusion equipment, oral/injectable contraceptives, and drugs.

Sri Lanka: 876,883 people displaced. UNFPA distributing basic reproductive health kits such as clean delivery supplies, blood transfusion equipment, hospital supplies, oral/injectable contraceptives, and drugs. In addition, 25,000 personal hygiene packs for women and girls.

But we have so very much more to do. A link on your Web site will help us raise the necessary resources -- to come to the aid of hundreds of thousands of people in desperate need.
Thank you for your consideration.

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An update from Art of Living Volunteers on ground.

A rather long post, I would appreciate if you can post this on your blog. I understand your blog may have more footprints than mine and I want this to reach out to whosoever is interested. These have been extracted out of AOL group mails.

Tapan Vaidya - a software professional working at Intel in Bangalore and a Art of Living teacher was doing seva (voluntary work) in Cuddalore. He came back yetserday and this is what he has to say:

What can I do for Tsunami victims?
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This thought troubled me for few days last week, until Friday, when I decided to go to Cuddalore with a group of volunteers and some relief material. Thinking there
is no better way to start the New Year than to be doing seva (service) where it is required the most.

Mostly what we got from 2 days of survey in the Tsunami affected areas is that there are a lot of well-to-do fishermen in the area, who lived a respectable life, and have lost their houses, occupation, and dear ones. Some of them are still mourning and do not want to go out for help nor want to talk to anyone. Some have the courage to fight the situation, and want to restart earning and continue with their business
but do not have the means. There are some who never wore second-hand clothes or never begged for anything and would not take any help if you are distributing things
out of your vehicle and expect them to come there and take it. And, there are some who were not affected at all but want to use the situation to accumulate as much a possible, and such situations are going to prevail.
Immediate requirement there is a lot of individual counseling from all Tamil speaking people, if you speak Tamil and if you can just reach a few people and talk to them and support them that might bring a big relief to people. We were able to conduct a couple of meditation/Prayer sessions in the places where relief work was going on and a lot of people were relieved of their emotional outburst. Ample food is available, but if you still want to, please send it to relief camps for now, since the affected people do not have houses. There are places where epidemics have spread, and doctors are of a great help here.
Long term requirement in terms of housing, boats for fishermen and Navchetna Shibirs to cope up with the trauma and fear of sea. All of these needs a lot of organized efforts. There are various centers of Art Of Living around the world who have started collecting contributions, If the Volunteers from Tamil Nadu and surrounding states get together and adopt some villages in terms of housing and providing boats too fishermen we would be able to impact a lot. Art of Living has already been identified as the only NGO to provide Trauma relief.
Seva is just being available where the need is, and from what we saw the need is enormous. Let us all coordinate our efforts and work fast on this. We are planning to send a group of volunteers ever week to the affected areas, also there is a huge need of people who can stay there for 15 – 20 days and interact with the locals and get the long term projects of housing, navchetna shibir etc started. Funds of course will be needed in ample here, and we have a big family who is more then willing to support the cause. Let us be useful in whatever little way we can be.
Further to this note above, here are the next steps:
For those who are in Bangalore and would like to do some seva, we're going to send buses every weekend. There's one that will leave this Friday night (from Bangalore) and will come back Monday morning. From our last experience, this team will have 2 doctors, 10 people who can speak Tamil and 10 people who are AOL teachers or have done AOL phase 1 alongwith relief material. Phase 1 fellows/teachers who can speak
Tamil are a bonus.
For now, all those who would like to be on this trip can send their names to me by Thursday 5.00 pm. (nakuldhawan@yahoo.com, 9886452620) I'm in touch with the Bangalore team (Subbu, Jayanagar), who is in touch with IAHV.

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Updates from Colachel and Kanyakumari in TN

Via Sam's blog: Youth With A Mission (YWAM) team has identified one such relief camp in Karungal with about 1,000 people. The thousand people in this camp are from 4 villages; Thotil Padu, Simon Colony, Colachel and Kurunpanai. Karungal is about 6 km inland from colachel. The people who ran the camp exhausted their resources and as a result have handed over the camp to us. (Read More)

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Dr.Shilpa Govardhan Reports From Nagapattinam

Dr.Shilpa, my friend, is volunteering in Nagapattinam and she has this to say about the situation:

OK, this may not be necessary, but I will mention anyway that the death and devastation that is on an awesome scale. Entire villages have been wiped out, without even a trace. So, the media has'nt really exaggerated on that account. But what it fails to do is take into account the sheer tenacity of life, and the relentless determination of the people themselves to get their lives back. If ever there was a genre of people who accept calamity, embrace it even, and then move on, they are these sea folk.
Their concerns are these: the generosity of their neighbors sustains them now, but what of later when the wave of benevolence dies down, and they become simply the forgotten victims of just another natural calamity? And they are a very proud people- the accept the charity only because they have to.
The only thing that they really want is their boats back. To go back to the sea which caused all their sorrow, and collect from her again what they have all their lives.(Their own words by the way- they have a very strong poetic streak in them.)
This is not a simple task, as it seems to be on the surface. Each catamaran (which is their simplest kind of boat) itself costs about 60,000, to say nothing of the larger ones which cost anywhere from 2, 00,000 to 10, 00,000 Indian Rupees. To add to this, the builders of the catamaran are a dying race, and they might possibly not be anyone left who could carry on the job. And each boat that was lost had about 3 to 4 nets in it which again costs about 30 to 40,000 Indian Rupees each.
The economic losses are huge; each family has lost in addition at least 50,000 in cash (They don't believe in banks. They store the money in their homes. And they are quite a financially secure race). Add to this their homes, schools, community halls, clothes, utensils and the amount is staggering. So what they really need now are funds. Donate to a reliable organization whatever you want to. Do not, for heaven’s sake, take it upon yourselves to come and donate to the people themselves. It not only fosters greed, it has led to chaos on an unbelievable scale. If you do want to come down yourself, then contact the village head.
The degree of organization here would put the biggest MNCs to shame. Each family has been given a card, colored according to their proximity to the shore. The head collects all relief material, and only when they have enough for all the people, they start distributing resources, using a checklist!
What would really be appreciated would be volunteers who can spare a week or two of their time, who are willing to work among them to see that they get their due, and to help them improve sanitation to prevent outbreaks. They are beautifully responsive to teaching- if only for a day or two. So, reinforcement is required, but they will tell you themselves what they require and how you may help. One just has to ask.
Volunteering need not be now. There are several NGOs that are planning an intervention of at least one year and they need all the man-power they can get-I know of one called Action Aid in Madras. There are definitely others.
Oh yes, and the government has to be congratulated on its swiftness and efficiency of action. They are most willing to follow suggestions too.

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Missing People - Tsinami.

Could you please let me know the whereabouts of the
following people (from Carnicobar).

1. Sunita Rodrigues wife of late Celson Rodrigues
-Sqdn Leader IAF,Carnicobar (his demise confirmed by
the IAF Delhi on the 27th Dec-04').
2. Rhea Rodrigues - 2 yrs 10 months
3. Lily Rodrigues -65, mother of Celson Rodrigues.

In case of any information, please let me know on
020-26816059 or 09823129735.

Thanks,

Sanjay Braganza (Brother of Sunita Rodrigues).




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to help Tsunami peoples

hello si we are the students of M.Sc Computer Science & Information Technolgy .We know that 26 th december was a black day for all South Asian Countries.We students wish to help those affected peoples for that we already contribute the money but still we are not satisfied & we wish to do something more inorder to help them but we do not have any proper guideline so will you please tell us more modes by which we can help them so that the peoples can overcome from that incident so kindly mail me on my mail id or you can simply make them availabe on the internet thanking you

we know that what ever we are first we are humans & We are INDIAN so send us main as early as possible

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General Instructions to the Volunteers who are planning to visit the Relief Camps

General Instructions to the Volunteers who are planning to visit the Relief Camps

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DEATILS OF MY SON MISSED IN TSUNAMI

Dear Sir,
Here i am sending my son details with Photo,
please find him and inform if any details you got
about my son.

Thanking You
Anadhan

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I'm an editor of Go Aio Directory .....

HELLO!
My Name is Anna, I am one of the editors of Go Aio! Directory
and I'm searching online to find quality websites to list in
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financial donation

hi i would like to contribute some funds to the tsunami relief
operations. could you kindly provide me information regarding this.
thank you
jagdish kanjhan

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Want To Volunteer?

Hi folks, I saw that most of you are looking for opportunities to volunteer.
tsunamihelpneeded.blogspot.com offers information about Tsunami affected areas where help is needed. So, check it out and choose what you want to do. You guys are great. Keep up the good work.
-Suman

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India Relief Volunteer

Hello,

My name is Aaron, I'm a 32 year old American currently in Poznan, Poland. I have skills in computers (primarily programming) and teaching English (though I do not speak any asian languages), and of course I am a somewhat fit man who can do any type of physical work. What I don't have is a lot of money or belongings, so I can't contribute financially, just in time and effort. I'm trying to find the best way to help, whether from here or from there. Any information on what I can do, and logistics about travel to India and the surrounding countries, would be greatly appreciated. Also, I need to be back in Poland by mid-February. Thanks for your time.

Aaron Blair
Seward, Alaska, USA
Currently Poznan, Poland

+48 506 83 0042

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look at thid websites for an exemple of sustainble reliefaction

http://auroville.org/tsunami/crisis.htm
http://auroville.org/tsunami/crisis_2.htm
http://auroville.org/tsunami/crisis_3.htm
http://auroville.org/tsunami/map.jpg
http://auroville.org/tsunami/crisis_2.htm#tsunami

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Emergency assistance

Hello

As with everyone else, I am stunned by the magnitude of the tsunami disaster and the devastating affect it has had and continues to have, on the lives of so many.

I am a primary school principal, currently on holidays until 30/1/05. I have a truck and bus licence and have experience in home renovations and building.

I have donated funds to the disaster appeal but would like to assist in other ways.

Please don't hesitate to contact me if my skills, my expertise and my willingness to help, can be of assistance.

 

 

Regards
David Dansie
Principal
Bundeena Primary School
school...phone 0011-61-2-95272133 fax 0011-61-2-95230940
While on line please have a look at the Bundeena School web page at
at http://www.bundeena-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/

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Rehabilitation measures: Help required in procuring fishing nets

As mentioned in my previous post, the villagers are now looking at rehabilitating their lives and leave the scar created by the black Sunday behind.

They are looking at nets for Shrimp / Prawn farming. Their nets and boats were completely damaged and they are starting afresh. It feels like they are coins in a game of Snakes & Ladders and they just caught the biggest snake to reach the starting point. They are not ready to be looked at as people who can't fend for themselves and depend on others for their next bread. They want to earn it and they surely will. But it would be humanitarian on our part to help them take their first steps after having hurt themselves.

This is a plea. They need nets. The nets cost Rs.350 (approximately 7 US Dollars) per kg. Each family needs 2 kgs of these nets. These nets are called Mani Valai in Tamil. There are approximately 400 families in the three villages that we visited, which makes it approximately 2400 kgs of this net. The total requirement comes to INR.8,40,000/- (approximately 16800 USD). Whatever we can provide as help would be most welcome by them.

People willing to contribute can please leave a comment for this posting. I promise in the meanwhile, to find means of accepting donations towards this cause.
-Nanda Kishore.S (nandasethuraman[at]gmail[dot]com)

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Please Do Not Misuse This Forum

Hi, this forum is meant to help people post information on the Tsunami disaster; people have been posting about missing folks, and relief work. Do not use this forum to post irrelevant messages, I beg you. We appreciate your sense of humor, but I think this is defnitely not the time to display it. Let us save it for some other occasion. Please, do not misuse this forum... it is so easy for me to stop this e-mail to website feature; but there are a lot of people out there that desperately need all the help they can get. Let them get it. Please - Suman.
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Volunteer Work

My name is Justin Hurst and I am 22 years old and a university student. I am
currently taking a break from classes and have some money saved up, thus
able and desiring to do all in my capacity to help rebuild areas affected by
this tremendous disaster, and to assist those in need. Please contact me at
anarchattila@hotmail.com if I can be of service. Thank you.

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missing person

Hello, I'm looking for a girl called Tenzin Dolma. Her address is Tibetan Colony Mundgod Distt Karwar Karnataka State. If there's anyone who has information please e-mail me at Darluy2000@yahoo.it. My name is Daniela Crociani from Rome.Thank you very much.

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finding person

Hello, I'm writing from Italy and I'm looking for a girl called Tenzin Dolma. Her address is Tibetan Colony Mundgod Distt Karwar Karnataka State. If there's anyone who has information about her and her family,please e-mail me at darluy2000@yahoo.it.

Thank you very much Daniela (Rome).

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finding person

Hello, I'm writing from Italy and I'm looking for a girl from Karnataka. Her name is Tenzin Dolma and her address is Tibetan Colony Mundgod Distt Karwar Karnataka State. If there's anyone who can have information please e-mail me .Thank you wery much.

Daniela (Rome)

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volunteer work

My name is Erin Webb, i am 27 years old and a qualified teacher. i would like to volunteer for work in any area that has been affected by the tsunami in the indian ocean. i will be happy to take on any role that would help in the rebuilding of the areas affected. please contact me with any helpful information so that i can start to organise what i can do to help.

my email is eawukuk@yahoo.co.uk

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Relief vans at Cudalore & Kaanathur villages (beyond Kalpakkam)

Two van loads of relief materials left for fishing villages beyond Kalpakkam. (Pictures will be posted tomorrow)

The relief material in the van included:
Provisions (Rice, Dal, Wheat)
Stoves (160 nos)
Bedsheets (250 nos)
Towels (250 nos)
Mats (150 nos)
150 Plates & Tumblers (Glasses) - Given by Gayathri Vinay of Philadelphia after going through www.sumankumar.com
Used Clothes (segregated as men & women's wear)
and assorted stuff (includes donations from people in India & abroad based on inputs from the website

There were relief camps all along the coast (read East Coast Road) and everyone seemed to have enough of clothing. PEOPLE! Please don't give more clothing unless it is meant for Cuddalore / Nagapattinam areas! There is enough clothing to sustain Chennai and surrounding areas! The relief cams were pathetic in condition. It just has plastic sheets tied to the ground and stands like a tent on two poles. It does not serve any purpose other than providing shade. The sea side by the nights are fairly cold and the victims most certainly lacked bedsheets & covered shelters.

There were a lot of relief vans along the string of relief camps, but I figured that most of them were distributing cooked food. The intent is very good, but this does not help the victims sustain. Provide a man with fish, he eats a meal. Teach him to fish, one gives him a livelihood! Please provide the victims with provisions, stoves, and bedcovers. But also think of providing them a livelihood.

I was talking to Venkatesan & Sukumaran of Periyakuppam. They had just come back to the shore with their catch on the day of the reckoning. When the first waves hit the village, people were hurt but they managed to scramble to safety. Safety was a kilometer away from the sea. (One of the images has been taken from the point till where water invaded the town. I couldn't see the sea from there! But the ground is still wet with the sea water. The debris & a tossed catamaran stands as proof!) These fishermen lost their boats & nets along with their catch which was mostly prawns / shrimps. They wouldn't have been talking to me today if they had stayed back to save their belongings. Fortunately, sense prevailed in them to ensure that the loss was restricted to property!

The third village was a complete disaster. When we reached Kaanathur village government school, I was actually feeling cheated because the school in which the 'victims' were hosted was quite dry and seemed far away from the bay. I began suspecting the nodal officer who suggested that we provide these people with the relief material. When I went inside (nearly 2.5kms inside) to the fishing hamlet by the sea (Angalammankuppam) I felt devastated. So was the village. (Check one of the images taken from the 'thinnai' or the verandah of a hut by the sea. The village was so close that the entire hamlet was surrounded by water and was washed away. There was nothing in the hut. Boats have been rammed into the huts by the sea with such brutal force that neither the boats nor the huts could survive. An 'aerial survey' from the top of the only pucca house in that hamlet shows how badly they have been affected. Babu of Angaalammankuppam mentioned that all the villagers have now been evacuated and are hosted at the government school. Little wonder that I initially felt 'cheated', but it is nature that has cheated them out of their livelihood. The bay that they depended upon has cheated them out of their lives.

The villages where the relief aid were distributed included; Periyakuppam, Aalankuppam & Angaalammankuppam. These villages were identified for us by Relief Foundation (An NGO which has now dedicated itself for this cause). We were led to these villages by Mr. Aghoram (a lawyer based in Madhurantakam) and Mr. Rajesh (from Chennai and works closely with Relief Foundation). There were more than 500 families in these three villages.

Losing life is one side of the story. Losing livelihood is another. Down South, in Cuddalore & Nagapattinam areas, people lost both. The villages we visited today didn't lose many lives, but they have most certainly lost their livelihood. (Pictures will be posted tomorrow by Suman). These villages have now been deserted because of various reasons. The villagers are scared of the sea. They don't have their homes, boats, nets & anything worth calling theirs! They are just alive. So is their spirit. No one cried anymore. They want to fight the sea. They want to get back in there. They want boats, nets and they know how to live.

Am collating details on the kind of nets and the costs. Will be providing the information by tomorrow. Will also be giving the nodal point for donating towards the livelihood of these villagers. Do your might and if not GOD or NATURE, these fishermen will surely bless you. AMEN.

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Tsunami Help Website

Umesh, Cayanne, Construction Engineer, Robert
and all those who are offering/seeking help :

Check out http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com/

They are organizing relief efforts and have online discussion boards
for "help needed" and 'help offered".

--shankar

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Relief Camp

Dear Suman,
We at RESCUE-FOUNDATION are setting up a Relief Camp in Nagapatnam
District.
Providing food,Medical help,construction of makeshift homes and
distribution of essentials are some of the activities we are involved in.
we are looking for voluteers who are willing to associate irrespective of
his qualifications.We also welcome donations in cash or kind.For further
details log on www.rescue-foundation.org.
regards,
Umesh Kumar

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In Search Of Info

Hello. I'm hoping to find out any information about a
child I've been sponsoring for the last 12 years or so
through the Christian Childrens Fund charity here in
the USA. The child's name is Dhamayanthi Venkatasamy.
She and her family (mother, father, & younger sister)
live in Karnataka, Bangalore, India. Her birthday is
2/8/87. At this time, she's 17 y.o. and studying to
be a Teacher. If there's anyone who can reach people
at the Kingsley Community Center there and find out
about the Venkatasamy family, please email me. My
email is: thirdfloor22@yahoo.com. Any news at all
would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Laura Rozela

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Relief volunteer

Dear Sirs,

I am an experienced Peace Corps Volunteer specializing in community
development, as well as a relief worker in Kosovo. I want to volunteer in
an capacity that I am needed to aid the relief effort in Southeast Asia. I
am available for 6-7 months. Please contact me.

Cayenne Smith
1142 Neil Ct.
Sonoma, Ca,
95476

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need help....

Want HELP asap...

On behalf of Visions Voluntary Organisation, we are looking for volunteers and funders for the tsunami victims.
we are in need for medicine, food, funds and cloths.
we are supporting the people who got affected by tsunami all over India and srilanka. As the number of victims getting bigger we are looking for help as soon as possible either by sending medicines or supplying food or even by sending some funds.
For further information please contact us on 00919849357362.
or email us on visionsvoluntaryorganisation@yahoo.co.in

for those who are sending cheques pls send to:

ac/no 1211,

  AP State co-operative bnk,

Masab tank,

Hyderabad,

Andhra Pradhesh

India.

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need help..

Want HELP asap...

On behalf of Visions Voluntary Organisation, we are looking for volunteers and funders for the tsunami victims.
we are in need for medicine, food, funds and cloths.
we are supporting the people who got affected by tsunami all over India and srilanka. As the number of victims getting bigger we are looking for help as soon as possible either by sending us medicines also helping by supplying food or by funding.
For further information please contact us on 00919849357362.
or email us on visionsvoluntaryorganisation@yahoo.co.in

or for those who want to send aid by cheque:

Ac/No: 1211

A.P State Co-operative Bank,

Masabtank

Hyderabad.

AP.

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Construction Equipment Engineer (volunteer)

Hi Sumank As previously stated I feel duty bound to
offer my skills and services to help in any way they
may be used. I like many people feel that it is only
right to assist in rebuilding your infra-structure so
that relief may be distributed faster and move freely.
I have looked over the internet to find a way to
assist and it appears that only donations and relief
volunteer positions are being posted so hopefully you
may know of other ways that i might assist,
yours sincerely





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Relief Volunteer

Dear Sirs,

I am a retired business executive with skills in logistic efforts and administration. I am willing to be directly involved in providing relief in India, Sri Lanka, Thailand,Indonesia, or
wherever I am needed.

Please tell me how I can join you in this relief effort. I am available immediately, for up to three months, providing any relief effort required.

Sincerely,
Robert Tabor
Boston, Massachusets, USA
(978) 263-8855




Regards,
Bob Tabor

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