A few of us (Arun, Suman, his wife Chi­tra, Vasu) will be in Chen­nai over the long week­end (Jan 14–16). We will be work­ing with Kiruba and Nanda who have been involved in such activ­i­ties from Chen­nai. One of the activ­i­ties will be to go into the nearby vil­lages to iden­tify fam­i­lies for spon­sor­ship for folks who want to help from the US. The other is to dis­trib­ute fish­ing nets, baby food, chil­dren school sup­plies in the nearby vil­lages, which Kiruba has already been doing for the last few days.

If you can pitch in terms of con­tri­bu­tions, please con­tact me asap via email: anitabora5 at red­iff­mail dot com. Any­thing will be useful.

UPDATE: Thanks for the response to my call for con­tri­bu­tions, folks.
Friends/acquaintances, Biswa­jit D, Shael S, Spidey, Vaish, her friend Mohan and Venkat. Some­one who hap­pened to come across this blog post — Gau­tam K — thanks for your gen­er­ous con­tri­bu­tion. My pals from Mum­bai, Pra­bal, Dhi­raj, Lynn and Anu­mita, and her friend Chandrika.

Much appre­ci­ated :)

Just read this report, for­warded by Anu­mita:
Hun­gry vil­lagers queu­ing up for food
“For a vil­lage which has a 350 strong-population, Nam­bikkai Nagar is sit­u­ated in no-man’s land. Each time a vehi­cle passes-by, vil­lagers rush towards it, hop­ing that it would bring in relief — because, for the past two days even food pack­ets have failed to reach them.” While many vil­lages are get­ting an abun­dance of relief, it seems like a few are get­ting left out.