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Women volunteers pack food at an outdoor annadhan (food distribution) station. Three women sit on plastic chairs at steel tables and large steel pans. The woman in front center wears white with a white hairnet and glasses, spooning yellow rice into clear plastic packets. Beside her a woman in white with a hairnet works a ladle. On the right, a woman in an orange and brown floral sari with a volunteer badge scoops from a pan. Stacks of clear plastic bags sit on a steel tray, and a blue tarpaulin and a table with containers are in the background.

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