Disclaimer: This report contains some graphic mention of loss of human life. Please be advised.

Tsunami Relief Work in TN - A Report
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First of all - Thanks for your wonderful response and the help you have been offering. 

It is now 6 days since the Tsunami struck - to all of us it seems more like 60!  At the AID office and in the PSF office, and in Relief offices and camps there are no days or nights - people are working round the clock.  There is hardly any time to sleep even a few hours. 

After helping organize the relief coordination in Chennai on Monday and Tuesday, I left for Cuddalore and Nagapattinam on Tuesday night with 5 truck loads of relief materials. I just got back yesterday with a plan to sleep a few hours and then write up a detailed report of what is happening on the field and in Chennai. But both were impossible! First there just is no time - so many things happening at the same time.  But finally as I manage to wriggle out some time to send you this email - I realize there is another problem - where to start, what to write? 

 
There is so much going on all around - so much positive energy in this period of massive destruction - a wonderful sign of hope.   It is this hope and this positive energy that makes me wish you all a Happy New Year.