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The local Chennai TOS medical team, including doctors, nurses, paramedics and other critical medical support staff. All of them are volunteers who devote large amounts of time in community and relief work. |
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First distribution of clothing in Mylapore, a district of Chennai. Witness the desperate rush for these supplies. |
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Bundles of clothes dropped by wellwishers were collected at the main gates of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, before being allocated to the respective areas. |
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The huge quantity of clothes had to be sorted so that the quality could be determined and that they could be equally distributed according to needs. |
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A group of Olcott School children: the girl on the left is one of over a hundred children who lost their books and uniforms in the tsunami. All their equipment has since been replaced by the TOS. |
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American TOS members - including Betty and David Bland, and Hutsy and Dinshaw Contractor - visiting the Social Welfare Centre. All three of the Indians in the photo donate considerable amounts of their time to the TOS's year round work. |
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A family at the Mylapore clothing distribution who had lost everything. The TOS arranged for supplies to be given to them, and also checked at the girls' school and received confirmation that their books had been replaced. |
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C.V.K. Maithreya (centre of photo in white shirt), a key player in the local Chennai TOS, coordinating the clothing distribution at Mylapore. |