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CHENNAI, JAN. 28. The Guild of Service (Central) will follow up its relief measures for tsunami-affected families with long-term rehabilitation programmes. It will supply fishing nets and catamarans to fishermen in villages while the repair of damaged motor boats has been taken up in Kadalur, Chinnakuppam, Paramankeni, Meiyurkuppam, and Uthandi villages off Tiruvanmiyur and Salavankuppam. More than 1,000 families in Chennai and in the above villages were provided relief kits worth Rs. 67 lakhs, with money donated by individuals, and organisations such as Plan India, Help Age India and Radico Khaitan, New Delhi. The guild has set up a committee including students of the Madras School of Social Work, which will coordinate the relief operations. The guild is also surveying school children's needs in Kalpakkam and is making arrangements to ensure that they return to school. Contributions can be sent to the guild's Chennai office. Ph: 28194279/28194828.
Temporary shelters
The Swami Dayananda Educational Trust, Manjakkudi has joined hands with Lucas- TVS and Seva, Coimbatore, and constructed 300 temporary shelters for about Rs. 40 lakhs at Serudur village, Nagapattinam district. The trust has also constructed a community hall, a common kitchen, provision shops and a police booth. They are also organising counselling for the affected. The trust is planning to rehabilitate the farming community of Serudur where lands have turned saline and drinking water sources have been contaminated after the tsunami. The Hindustan College of Engineering and the Hindustan College of Arts and Science have jointly distributed clothes, textbooks, uniforms and stationeries worth Rs. 50, 000 to the children of Chinnakuppam near Kalpakkam. The Railway Pensioners' Association, Jawahar Nagar, donated Rs. 11,111 to the Chief Minister's Public Relief Fund for the tsunami victims. About 2,000 school children in both Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry being taken care of by Paalam, a non-governmental organisation, were provided with food and educational aids during the Republic Day celebrations. The relief measures were aided by `Frontliners,' an association of Tamilians working in Kuwait. People of Hallein, near Salzburg in Australia, donated Rs.3,30,000 towards the relief work. The money was handed over by Helmut Gruber of Hallein to the representative of SOS Children's Villages of India — Chatnath Homes, an organisation for destitute children.
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