Volume 15 | Issue 19
(Clockwise from top) Army jawans helping victims in Chennai (Picture: Indian Army); A bus stuck in flooded roads of Potheri in Kancheepuram district (Picture: Joyce Sara); One of the cars with supplies, before it left from Bangalore (Picture: Siva Mani); A part of the Vandalur Oragadam Highway that caved in (Picture: Sudhir Nambiath)
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Bangalore aid reaches Chennai’s flood of tears EXCLUSIVE Tanay Sukumar Five cars with essential supplies left Bangalore for Chennai today early morning to assist flood victims, after a Facebook post by a Bangalore-based youth went viral. Several other vehicles with volunteers were on the way soon after. Rains, transport and limited manpower created problems for volunteers going to Chennai. The five cars left Bangalore with large containers on
Thursday morning. Rakesh Haridas, a Bangalore-based entrepreneur, said that “overwhelming support” from the city had been a logistical challenge. However, he said they did not have enough people to deliver supplies to victims in Chennai. Haridas and several other volunteers in the city had been collecting consumables, readyto-eat stuff, sanitary napkins, candles, diapers, and raincoats, from 14 drop-off points in Bangalore since Wednesday afternoon. Siva Mani, another volunteer,
said that the next set of vehicles would leave Bangalore on Saturday. Volunteers like Aishwarya Thilak stayed back on Thursday to collect more supplies. Mani, a software engineer and photographer, took leave from work for four days to work on this. The drop-off points are in Indiranagar, Madiwala, Banasankhari, Whitefield, Shanthinagar, Maratahalli, KR Puram, Whitefield, Frazer Town, Kammanahalli, Banaswadi, Kalyan Nagar, Bannerghatta Road. contd. on Page 3