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Outdoor 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.

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January 06 20122012-01-06January 04 20122012-01-04A 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.2012-01-06January 04 20122012-01-04Outdoor kitchen preparation scene under a red tarpaulin canopy. Several men wearing white shirts and white or green head caps sit on a blue plastic sheet, chopping and peeling vegetables such as potatoes, cabbage, onions and cauliflower into metal pots and steel trays. Large steel cooking vessels and sacks of produce are stacked around them, with palm trees and laundry hanging in the background. A woman in an orange-brown sari works at a concrete counter nearby.2012-01-04Under a corrugated metal roof on a relief site, women volunteers sit on blue tarpaulins preparing food for an annadaan. Heaps of cabbage, carrots, radishes, green beans and other vegetables cover the ground, with large steel pots and sacks nearby. Several women wear orange, yellow and red saris and white head coverings. Storm-damaged trees and bare land stand beyond the open shed.2012-01-06A open-sided outdoor kitchen under a tarpaulin roof at a relief camp, with large steel cooking pots and vessels on the left and sacks of produce piled on blue tarps. Several women in green hairnets and aprons sit on the ground chopping and sorting heaps of cabbage, carrots, radish, eggplant and beans, while a man in a white shirt and dark trousers stands near the centre. Palm trees and a white-walled building appear behind the open structure. No identifiable a person figure is visible.2012-01-06An open-sided tin-roofed shelter in a cyclone-damaged village with palm trees and fallen branches, used for a community meal (annadaan). Several men in white dhotis and white shirts, some wearing green or white hair nets, stir and serve food from large steel pots of rice. One bare-chested man wears a white dhoti with a gold-bordered cloth and a green cap; another in white shirt and dhoti stands at right with a gold wristwatch. A man in a light shirt at left wears an ID lanyard. Steel vessels of vegetables and curries line the counter.2012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06A 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 20122012-01-06