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Outdoor food relief kitchen under a corrugated metal roof on sandy ground. Large steel cooking pots sit over open wood fires, steam rising at right. Women in orange and red saris and head coverings stir and tend the pots, and a man in a striped shirt and head cloth stands at right. Sacks of rice lie on blue tarpaulin at left, with bags of vegetables nearby. Several people in white clothing move among the stalls in the background, and a white van is parked beyond the shelter. The scene shows an annadaan community meal being prepared.

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Outdoor 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 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 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 relief kitchen under a striped blue, green, pink and white canopy, with steam rising from large steel cooking pots set on portable burners. Several women in red and orange saris and men in white shirts and hairnets stir and ladle food from the big pots, with more workers and passersby visible in the background tents and open ground.2012-01-07A open-sided corrugated metal shelter on bare sandy ground serves as a community kitchen during relief work. Large black and metal cooking pots sit over small wood fires, with stacked white rice sacks and blue tarpaulins spread on the ground. Several women in colourful saris and men in shirts and white dhotis work around the pots, some wearing head coverings and a few wearing blue or yellow shirts. Palm trees and debris are visible beyond the shelter. No ceremony or a person is shown.2012-01-06Open-sided shed with a corrugated metal roof serves as a community kitchen for food distribution. A man in a white shirt and checked lungi with a red head cloth stirs a large pot with a long metal ladle over a wood fire. Several large aluminium cooking pots and steel vessels sit on the sandy ground and on stoves, with bags of rice and piled greens nearby. Other workers in white and plain clothing, some with head coverings, move around the stations. A green-leafed tree line and a hazy sky appear beyond the shed.2012-01-06January 04 20122012-01-04Outdoor relief camp under a corrugated metal roof with wooden posts, sheltering a food distribution (annadaan) operation in a village setting with palm trees. Volunteers in white surgical caps and hairnets sit on the ground chopping vegetables from sacks of produce and stir large steel cooking pots. Blue tarpaulin is spread with rice and grain sacks and steel containers. Many people mill about in mixed clothing, some in white. In the right foreground a man in a white dhoti with an orange-yellow border stands barefoot, his back partly turned to the camera; he is not further identified. Plastic chairs and a red bucket are scattered around the site.2012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06A 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.2012-01-06Outdoor relief kitchen under a striped tent canopy, with steam rising from large aluminium cooking pots set on portable stoves on bare ground. Several workers wear white hairnets and aprons: a man in a white shirt and red cloth on his shoulder stirs a pot and pours from a steel pail, and women in red, orange and pink saris tend other pots. A gas cylinder and a sack of vegetables sit at the front. Other people move in the background.2012-01-07January 06 20122012-01-06