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A open-sided corrugated metal shelter serves as a cyclone relief kitchen. Several workers in white shirts and mundus, many wearing light green head caps and hairnets, stand around large steel cooking pots and vessels on a dirt ground. A woman in a white coat and an identification lanyard sits at a folding table with a black bag and a plate of food. Blue tarpaulins, green and orange plastic chairs, and sacks are scattered about. Men in tan and checked shirts and lungis stand nearby, and a man in a brown uniform stands with his hands behind his back. Hazy trees are visible beyond the shelter.

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A relief kitchen under a corrugated tin and bamboo shelter serves food to cyclone-hit villagers in Kuttiyankuppam. Volunteers in white or pale head caps and aprons chop and stir at steel pots and large cooking vessels on blue tarpaulins, with heaps of green vegetables on the ground. Along the right, women in green and pink saris sit cutting produce. In the foreground a bald man in white dhoti and cloth sits cross-legged with a notebook, and a man in a brown shirt stands at left beside water bottles. Stalls with striped awnings and a crowd of people stand in the background.2012-01-06January 07 20122012-01-07Outdoor food preparation under a corrugated metal shelter at a relief camp in a damaged village area. Large dark metal cooking pots sit on open wood fires on the sandy ground, with a lidded pot in the foreground and smoke rising. Several people in white or light head coverings and hairnets sit on blue tarpaulins chopping vegetables, while volunteers in saffron and white clothing stand and move between tables. A red truck, orange gas cylinders, plastic chairs, sacks of grain and a pile of chopped green vegetables are visible. Trees and debris lie beyond the shelter.2012-01-06January 04 20122012-01-04January 06 20122012-01-06A large open-sided tin-roofed tent serves as a community kitchen, with blue tarps spread on the dirt floor and steel cooking pots and vats set on the ground. Many workers wear white head caps and aprons while stirring pots, chopping produce, and handling sacks, and several seated volunteers sit on red plastic chairs around a big cooking pot. Heaps of green vegetables and fruit, bundled grain sacks and bowls fill the foreground, and striped awnings and palm trees appear beyond the tent.2012-01-06A large open-sided relief kitchen under a tarpaulin roof on bare ground, serving cyclone-relief annadaan in Kuttiyankuppam village. Volunteers in white head caps and aprons stir big metal pots over fires and tend steaming cooking vessels on blue tarps. A man in the foreground leans over a wide steel pot stirring cooked vegetables. Other workers in white shirts and dhotis stand among stacked grain sacks, plastic buckets and orange plastic chairs, while women in colourful saris sit on tarps at the right. The scene includes bamboo supports and a row of red and white striped cloth in the background.2012-01-06An open-air community kitchen under a long corrugated-roof shelter supported by bamboo poles, with palm trees behind. Many large steel cooking pots and vessels sit on the bare ground, and women in pale green hair nets and saris work over them, stirring and serving food. A boy in a green shirt sits at a small table in the foreground beside orange plastic chairs. Men in white dhotis and orange garments move among the stalls, and a saffron and orange flag hangs from a pole at the left. Striped cloth canopies extend along the back. This appears to be an annadhan food service.2012-01-04January 06 20122012-01-06January 04 20122012-01-04Outdoor food distribution tent under a dark canopy with wooden poles, where volunteers in green hairnets and aprons serve meals from large steel pots and trays onto a long table. Seated women in colourful saris and salwar, including one in a green-and-white outfit, eat at orange plastic chairs. A man in a white shirt and a volunteer in a white t-shirt with printed lettering move among the stalls. Palm trees and a white wall are visible behind, with a small fire under a pot at left.2012-01-04Outdoor relief camp under a corrugated metal roof on a dusty ground, with palm trees and blue-striped tents beyond. In the foreground, a man in a cream shirt and a man in a blue checked shirt sit on orange plastic chairs at a table with papers. A man in white dhoti and shirt with an orange head towel sits between them, arm raised. Standing nearby, a man in a light yellow shirt with a lanyard wears a hairnet, and a man in a white kurta with a lanyard stands at right beside stacks of green coconuts or fruit and cooking pots. Several workers in white caps and aprons tend food stations in the background. Light fixtures hang from poles overhead.2012-01-06