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Outdoor relief kitchen under a striped canvas tent with blue tarpaulins, where volunteers prepare food for an annadaan meal. In the foreground, large steel pans hold chopped green leafy vegetables, white grated coconut or rice, and red-orange chilli or tomato preparations, surrounded by sacks of rice and flour. Several women wear white head caps and aprons; one woman in an orange-yellow sari stands near the sacks, and another in a pink sari sits chopping vegetables. A standing man in a red shirt and white dhoti stands beside a steaming vessel. Plastic chairs and tables are visible in the background among other tents and people in white.

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Outdoor community kitchen under blue and striped canopies at a relief camp. Volunteers in white clothes and white hairnets chop vegetables on blue tarpaulins. A man in white with a sacred thread prepares produce from a large steel tray into a deep pot, while metal bowls of chopped greens, shredded cabbage and chilies sit nearby. A woman in an orange and white saree and another in a red top stand among sacks of rice and grain. Trucks and people are visible in the background.2012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06Outdoor 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.2012-01-06Outdoor food-packing station under a striped canopy tent, with women in green and blue hairnets packing cooked rice into plastic bags. A woman in a red blouse and peach saree at left spoons food from a large steel tray, while a woman in a green saree and pink blouse wears gloves to pack. Another woman in a green-and-white saree at right holds bags, and a woman in an orange-bordered white saree stands behind a large pot. Large steel cooking vessels, sacks of grain and plastic bags sit on tables and the ground. Several people stand in the background near white walls and tarpaulin-covered sacks.2012-01-04January 06 20122012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06January 04 20122012-01-04January 03 20122012-01-03A 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.2012-01-06Outdoor food preparation under a corrugated roof on bare dirt ground at a relief camp. Large aluminium cooking pots and steel vessels sit on portable metal stoves and tripods, with a blue tarp holding white rice sacks and vegetables on the left. Several men in white caps and hairnets work among the pots; one in a white shirt and blue lungi stands at right, and others in orange or white cloths and mixed clothing move around the cooking area. Plastic chairs, a truck and parked vehicles appear in the background under palm trees.2012-01-06A 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 04 20122012-01-04