Relief work updates

1. If anyone is interested to do rescue work for affected people in Besant Nagar please contact Shihan Hussaini 98411618386. You could help with old clothes, water bottles, blankets, food packets. Even if u cant help please pass on this message to the people whom u know. If anyone is interested to do rescue work for affected people in Neelankarai please contact Priya 25506284.
2. To know details of your loved ones in Nagapattinam and for People willing to do rescue work there please contact the following numbers.
   04635 242 999
   04635 248 777
3. Quite a lot of volunteers from Asha are also working fulltime in the relief efforts: Lakshmi Suryanarayana (surlak@vsnl.net) in Urur Kuppam, Olcott Kuppam is one of them who has been sending daily reports to the Asha mailing lists.
4. http://survivors.aidindia.org - AID India Relief and Rehabilitation Fund: AID has been working a LOT from the accounts I have received. I have gotten in touch with the AID Bangalore & Chennai folks today, will be providing updates on this soon. My friend Vinod at UT Austin has helped raise quite a lot of money in the last few days at this site.
5. More NGOs (from BBC and others)
   Care International
   International Federation of the Red Cross
   Medecins Sans Frontieres
   Oxfam
   Save The Children
   Unicef
   World Vision, Cafod
6. If anyone has any information about volunteer visits to affected areas to assess the damage, plan for future relief projects, please drop me a line, I would be very interested to know and get involved.