AMERICAN HINDU ASSOCIATION   (AHA) [Tax-Exempt Organization under Internal Revenue Code, Section 501(c)(3)].

AMERICAN HINDU ASSOCIATION  (AHA) is soliciting your tax-deductible contribution for the CYCLONE victims in North and East of Sri Lanka.      

     We cannot leave our brothers and sisters at the mercy of  their fate. At this moment they need our help to tide away the calamity that has fallen upon them, to survive hunger and disease, to rebuild their life. AHA will channel your generous contributions to the voluntary, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), who have been engaged in the relief and rehabilitation of victims in the past.

      In turn, AHA is administered by volunteers without any honorarium. Please help your fellow brothers and sisters in Sri Lanka, who are victims of cyclone. Please respond to the needy people in North and East part of Sri Lanka, and do your part.

       Donations to AMERICAN HINDU ASSOCIATION   are tax exempted in United States, and You will receive an email confirmation of your generous gift from AHA. Make checks payable to AMERICAN HINDU ASSOCIATION, and mail it to the following address:
                                                                                     AMERICAN HINDU ASSOCIATION   
                                                                                      Sri Lanka Cyclone Relief
                                                                                      P.O.Box   55405
                                                                                      Madison  WI  53705

In the memo, please mention Sri lanka Cyclone Relief.
For further information: Web Site: 
http://www.oocities.org/whindu/aha.html         Email: whindu@usa.net
Cyclone caused disruptions ease
[TamilNet, January 01, 2001 00:26 GMT]
Eastern Trincomalee district which was hit by cyclonic storm and heavy rains on Tuesday is limping back to normalcy with the restoration of pipe-borne water and electricity supply, local officials said.
According to Meteorological Department Trincomalee district was hit by the cyclone at an average speed of 120 kilometer per hour on December 26. The water and electricity supplies to the Trincomalee district were disrupted at the onset of the cyclone due to rupture of pipelines and damage to the electricity grid in several places. National Water Supply and Drainage Board and Electricity Board buildings were also damaged.
Water supply was restored on Friday evening. The electricity supply was restored on Saturday night.
In the meantime, the Social Service Ministry went back on its promise to issue free dry rations for two weeks to all 83 thousand families living in the Trincomalee district, by now instructing the authorities concerned to provide rations for only one week, residents said.
Meanwhile a group of Sinhalese residents on Sunday held a demonstration at Abeyapura, a suburb in the Trincomalee, demanding that they be issued with free dry rations for two weeks as earlier promised by the Social Service Minister Milroy Fernando when he visited Trincomalee on Thursday to assess the damages caused by the cyclone.
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