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By Our Special Correspondent
CHENNAI, FEB. 3. With $ 22,000 at the disposal of its tsunami relief activities, the Mata Amritanandamayi Math has launched a series of livelihood and rehabilitation schemes for the tsunami-affected families in Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Andaman and Nicobar, Kerala and Sri Lanka. The Math proposes to provide monthly pension for widows and employment for women/widows who have lost their children and are educated up to the eighth standard. Women educated up to the 10th standard will be trained in nursing at the Amrita Institute of Medical Science and Research Centre, Kochi. Three hundred girls from Kerala have already been selected for the programme and 150 girls from Tamil Nadu will be absorbed into the programme, the Chief Operating Officer, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Abhayamrita Chaitanya, told presspersons today. The Math, after conducting extensive surveys to provide educational support for the economically weaker students studying in various schools and colleges, has come forward to support them with tuition and boarding fees, books, uniforms and notebooks. Twenty-four students have been chosen and 100 more are likely to benefit from the scheme, according to Br. Chaitanya. While the Math has been given the go-ahead for re-building two villages in Nagapattinam-Pattinacherry-Nagore and Samanthampettai — it has also undertaken to take up another village — Akkaraipettai — along with another NGO, the TATA Relief Committee. The proposals submitted to the Government are for rehabilitation in three villages in Kanyakumari, Kovalam in Chennai and three villages in Pondicherry and Karaikal, putting the total number of houses to be built in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry at 1,700. Br. Chaitanya said that it was proposed that the affected fishermen form self-help groups to fish together. A fibreglass boat would be provided with fishing nets to each group and they would have to share the catch.
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