

Vincent Daisy (44), wife of a fisherman and mother of two, cooks lunch in a welfare camp in Thampattai in the afternoon. She says she received only rice, sugar and flour from relief workers and have to buy vegetables, chillie powder, onion, green chillies, coconut and other spices at the shop. She earns Rs 300 clearing rubble. She says she is sick after working for long hours in the heat and finds difficult to make ends meet after her husband lost his job in Tsunami. The tent they are living in is very hot that no one can stay inside more than a few minutes. Some camp residents are using coconut fronds as roof to make the tents cooler.