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Tsunami Relief Effort Update
To All Old Boys' of The Doon School
Gentlemen
Our collections till date have exceeded Rs 6,00,000.00 (rupees six lacs) - three quarters from our fraternity and the balance from "friends" of the DSOBS. Many have advised that their contributions are on it's way and we appreciate everyone's efforts. Our immediate goal for this "relief" effort is to arrange funds to supply at least one million liters of drinking water.
Clean Drinking Water Supply - our initial geographical area of disbursement has been along coastal Tamilnadu, where, by this evening, we would have disbursed more than 150,000 liters of water. Tomorrow, we should load upto 200,000 liters on "m.v. Nan Cowry" which will sail from Chennai port to the Andaman Islands. In addition, daily deliveries to affected villages along the Tamilnadu coast will continue per advise received from the Red Cross and the central governments, National Disaster Management Cell coordinator in Chennai, through whom we are channelising our efforts. Details of what we have been able to supply are as per the message below from Ajay Pratap Singh's (214H-1966) colleague in Chennai.
Meanwhile, we have started receiving proposals for "rehabilitation" projects and these will be discussed, evaluated and shared with you in the future.
On behalf of all of us on your society's Executive Committee, I thank you for your responses, support and contributions. Please do share this information with other old boys' with whom you are in contact - we have some 1500 email addresses out of the 4000 plus database of old boys.
Best regards,
Gautam Chadha
Vice President
Doon School Old Boys' Society,
New Delhi, India
Following is the extract of the email sent to Mr. Gautam Chadha.
-----Original Message-----
From: R M CURSETJI [mailto:rmc@waterindia.net]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 10:01 PM
To: GAUTAM CHADHA
Cc: AJAY PRATAP SINGH
Subject:
Dear Mr Gautam Chadha
The enclosed attachment gives full details of Water sent for Tsunami relief so far. Tomorrow we propose to despatch 5 more trucks as follows:---
10000 litres to Melaiyur
10000 litres to Tharangambadi
10000 litres to Villupuram
20000 litres to Vadanemmel
In addition to the above we shall commence despatches to Andamans of as much as possible (between 1 to 2 lac litres)by loading of containers on to ship called Nan Cowry scheduled to sail on 12th Jan 2005.
We are informed that the need for Water in the Andamans is so acute that they even sent some quantities by Aircrafts.They are planning for relief shipments to sail every third day
Regards,
Rohinton
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