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Relief assistance continues to flow

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, JAN. 8. Public sector undertakings, private donors and individuals continued to provide relief materials to the tsunami-affected population across the city and elsewhere.

The Integral Coach Factory Karmik Sangh, affiliated to the Bharatiya Railway Mazdoor Sangh, today distributed 10,000 kg of rice, 5,000 kg dhal, Rs. 1 lakh worth medicines, 500 new vessels, buckets, stoves and mats to 400 families from Tiruvottiyur and Ennore. The ICF employees contributed a day's wages to the purchase and transport of the above items.

At a relief camp organised by the North circle office of Indian Bank in Royapuram, about 2,000 families living in huts were given relief materials.

The Hindu Mission Hospital held a 10-day relief camp in 42 coastal villages south of Kalpakkam. In collaboration with the Chengalpattu district bar association and legal aid cell, relief kits including blankets, clothes, towels, pots, utensils, soaps and vegetables worth Rs. 75,000 were distributed. The hospital's facilities including artificial limb facility were offered free to the villagers.

The District Legal Services Authority, Chengalpattu, and the District Lawyers Association held a free legal aid camp on Thursday at Old Nadukuppam in Cheyyur circle.

The Indian Solidarity Committee distributed school bags, notebooks, writing materials and water bottles to 400 students of Korakuppam and Sattangkuppam in Pazharverkadu union.

The Air Force Wives Welfare Association of the Air Force Station, Tambaram, set their first consignment of six tonnes of relief material comprising food, clothes and medicines to Nagapattinam.

Child Care International, United Kingdom, and Life Net for People, United States, have distributed clothes blankets, utensils and mats to 1,150 families living along the coast in Pudupattinam, Chaturangapattinam and Uyyali kuppam.

The voluntary organisation, Asha Nivas, distributed relief assistance in collaboration with Gremaltes Hospital and Thejo Engineering Services on Friday. Lawrance Pius, Archdiocesan administrator of Madras-Mylapore Archdiocese, distributed relief kits containing mats, bed sheets, clothes, stoves, cooking and other utensils to 1,000 people.

A coastal rehabilitation network — Core India Network in association with CCF India held a three-day training programme for qualified social workers at its Mogappair office (Ph. 55713527, 55713528). Eighty qualified counsellors from member organisations participated in trauma counselling, stress management, fear management, dissemination of services available for relief and rehabilitation.

The Padi-based United Cultural Centre, a Malayalee association, distributed 1,000 bed sheets at a cost of Rs. 65,000 to survivors at Srinivasapuram on Thursday.

Teaching and non-teaching staff of D.B. Jain College has donated a day's salary amounting to Rs. 45,251 to the Chief Minister's Public Relief Fund.

The State bank of Hyderabad distributed lanterns to the affected people at the Mount Road branch.

Concern India Foundation-Chennai supplied rice, dhal, oil, sugar, tea, spices, old clothes and toys for some children in some affected villages on East Coast Road on December 30. The organisation's staff will also give one day's salary to the Concern-Tsunami Rehabilitation Fund to be used to rehabilitate victims. Donors may send their cheques to Concern India Foundation, Ador House, 6K, Dubash Marg, Mumbai, 400001 (Phone: 022-22855487).

The family of the five surviving Kendriya Vidyalaya schoolteacher in Car Nicobar's Air Force School have been given a relief of Rs. 10,000 each and provided free air travel to their destinations. Four teachers are still missing.

The commissioner of the KV schools has assured accommodation to teachers in schools nearest to their hometown depending on their requests and vacancies. Students whose bona fides could be established would also be admitted to KV schools of their choice, according to Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan.

About 100 fishermen families in Vairavankuppam in Pazhaverkadu near here were given relief materials by the Southern Railway Women's Welfare Organisation on Wednesday. The materials included bed sheets, rice, dhal, plates and clothes. The members of the organisation conducted medical camp for the fishermen. They are mobilising materials to be supplied to the affected families which were sufficient for running the family for the next two months. Books and notebooks were distributed to students who lost study materials in tsunami, according to a railway release.

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