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A flatbed truck with wooden slatted sides is loaded with stacked green and red-striped sacks of rice or grain, plus orange sacks at its left edge. It is parked beside a corrugated metal-roofed open shed with a blue tarpaulin. Under the shed, workers in the background tend a cooking area with steaming pots and a large metal vessel in the foreground, and firewood or sugarcane stalks are piled behind. Bare trees and an overcast sky appear beyond. A silver car is at the left edge. No people are clearly identifiable in the foreground.

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January 04 20122012-01-04A photograph of a truck bed loaded with large sacks of rice in green and yellow packaging, some printed with the brand name KDS Brand. A man in a white short-sleeved shirt and dark trousers stands on top of the load. Coconut palms and a white car are behind the truck, and women in saris stand at a covered stall on the right. Some sacks are white and unlabelled. The setting appears to be an outdoor relief distribution point. and2012-01-04January 04 20122012-01-04January 04 20122012-01-04A photograph of relief work at a truck loaded with large woven rice sacks in green, pink and yellow. A man in a white shirt and white dhoti stands on the truck bed, while another man in a white dhoti carries a sack on his head toward the camera. A third man in a white shirt and dark trousers stands at the side, and a young man in a white t-shirt leans at a silver car. A corrugated shed roof, a palm tree and storm-damaged trees appear behind them, with women in the background near cooking equipment.2012-01-04Outdoor relief-kitchen scene on a dirt road in a cyclone-hit village. Several large metal cooking pots with lids sit on the ground in the foreground, with a bowl of yellow food at lower left. A green-and-blue truck stands at left and an orange-and-red truck at the back, near a line of parked vehicles. Two or three men in lungis and shirts handle the pots and a large basket of food, one in a red shirt. Fallen branches, bare trees and palms show storm damage.2012-01-06A photograph of a relief kitchen under a corrugated metal roof, with large black cooking pots and steel vessels on the ground and gas cylinders nearby. In the foreground, a man in a checked lungi and white shirt stands on the bed of a green-and-yellow truck, while several men with white head caps and white coats, plus a man in a green striped shirt and a man in a brown shirt, face the truck. Storm-damaged palm and bare trees stand behind the shelter, with other workers tending the cooking area. No one visible is clearly identifiable as a person.2012-01-06A photograph of relief work outdoors beside a flatbed truck with an open metal frame, loaded with stacked sacks of rice labelled "KOS BRAND" in yellow, green and red. Four men stand around the truck unloading sacks: one in a white shirt stands on the bed, two in white dhotis and white shirts face each other handing a sack down, and a man in a white shirt and grey trousers stands at right. A man in a green cap at left wears white. Parked silver and grey vehicles, palm trees, a tarpaulin shelter and a row of people with metal pots sit in the background.2012-01-04A 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.2012-01-06Outdoor relief kitchen in a cyclone-damaged village, with broken trees and palm trunks around a dirt yard. A blue-and-orange cart stands at left beside a sack and steel vessels. Several men in white shirts and trousers, several wearing green hairnets or caps, handle large pots and steel plates at a cooking station under a tarp frame. Strewn branches and a truck are visible behind.2012-01-06A photograph of a relief distribution site under a striped red, green and navy tent canopy with fringed edging, beside palm trees. A man in a green shirt and checked lungi carries a white sack on his head toward a stacked table of rice bags. Workers wearing pale green hairnets and white caps stand nearby, including one in a pink shirt and another in a white shirt. Behind them, men in white dhotis and a parked white van are visible. A blue drum sits at the right edge of a dusty ground. Several others are partially visible in the foreground.2012-01-04January 06 20122012-01-06