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Outdoor relief kitchen under a tarpaulin-roofed shelter with dirt floor. Several large aluminium cooking pots sit on open wood fires, with smoke rising. Volunteers in white shirts and green hair-nets tend the pots, and a woman in an orange sari carries a metal bowl. Stainless steel vessels and buckets line a counter on the right, with palm trees and a white wall behind. Scene from an annadaan food service at a medical camp in a village.

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January 06 20122012-01-06Outdoor community kitchen under a open tarp shelter, where a man in a white shirt, green head covering and maroon lungi stirs a large steel cooking pot set over a wood fire on a metal stand. Several other steel pots and vessels sit on the sandy ground around him, and another worker in a green cap and white shirt stands nearby beside another pot. Palm trees and a white building are visible in the background, with bright fluorescent lights hung from the shelter poles. A rope runs diagonally across the lower right of the frame.2012-01-04Outdoor cooking area at a relief camp in a village setting, with several large aluminium cooking pots lidded and set over open wood fires on bare earth. Three men work around them: one in a white head cap and cream shirt holds a ladle-like tool, another in a white head cap with a red cloth and checked lungi stands at the fire, and a man in a light green shirt and orange lungi carries a steel pot on the right. A low white compound wall, palm trees and a blue drum sit behind them.2012-01-06Outdoor community kitchen under a corrugated metal roof with a palm grove behind. Several volunteers in white caps, aprons and white or patterned clothes stir and ladle food from large aluminium pots set over open wood fires with blackened ash. A woman in a yellow and orange sari stands at the centre, and a large steel drum in the foreground holds water. Coconut palms and a tarpaulin shelter are visible in the background.2012-01-04A photograph of an open-sided outdoor kitchen under a corrugated metal roof and tarpaulin, used for mass food preparation. Large steel cooking vessels sit on open wood fires on bare ground. Several people in white shirts and dhotis, and women in saris, wear blue-green hair caps and work around the pots and metal trays of cooked rice and prepared food. Sacks, plastic packets and bowls lie on the ground. Palm trees and a boundary wall are visible behind, and a child stands at the right. Plain work clothing and the open ground suggest a relief-food setting.2012-01-04January 06 20122012-01-06Outdoor community kitchen under a canopy with striped cloth awnings and palm trees behind. Large aluminium cooking pots sit over wood fires on sand. Men in white shirts and checked lungis, and workers in hairnets, tend the cooking. Three sannyasi-style men in saffron-orange robes with rudraksha malas stand at center, one with a shaved head, one with a bare head and rudraksha beads, and one in a green cap. Smaller pots and metal trays are scattered around the food preparation area.2012-01-04January 06 20122012-01-06A photograph of a large outdoor community kitchen under a tarpaulin at a relief camp, with several men in white shirts and green hairnets working around big steel cooking pots and a wood fire. In the foreground, a man in a white shirt and green hairnet lifts a steel bowl of cooked food, while a man in a dark checked shirt helps hold a bowl. Other workers in white and a woman in orange saris move among the stoves and pots under a blue and red canopy. The scene is annadaan food service.2012-01-06January 04 20122012-01-04An outdoor community kitchen under a striped and patterned canvas awning. Large aluminium cooking pots with lids sit on dirt ground in the foreground, one with a yellow-tinged food inside. A woman in an orange-and-pink patterned sari and green hairnet stirs a pot, while a woman in a white sari and hairnet stands at right beside a uniformed police officer in khaki with a red cap. Men in white shirts and white dhotis, some with hairnets, work among sacks and plastic bags of supplies. No a person candidate is visible.2012-01-04January 04 20122012-01-04