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Dear all,
Another BIG Sadhu to all your generous donation and contribution.
As of to date 12.30 midnight we have managed to seal off 4 x 20-footercontainer of canned food, biscuits, milk-powder, clothes, power generators &etc. to Colombo.
While waiting to get a consignee in Indonesia who can help us to receive thecontainers and distribute them to the Relief Center in Banda Aceh, we havedecided to ship another 2x20-footer containers to Colombo.
We have to apologize to all the generous donors who we have to turn their"Clothes" item because we truly could not receive these items any more inMahindarama.
Allow us some time to clear all our backlogs in re-packing the above itemsand load them into the container before we re-open our receiving again.
If any of our subscriber in Indonesia can act as our consignee anddistributor of the humanitarian aids for Banda Aceh, please contact us byproviding your name, address and contact number. We have 2 x 40-footer ofrice, drinking water, clothes, canned food & etc. ready for delivery.
Latest Schedule and Progress Updates:
1st Sea Shipment - ETA Penang (1-Jan-05) ETD Colombo (9-Jan-05) ...COMPLETED
2nd Sea Shipment - ETA Penang (?) ETD Medan (?) .. Pending Consignee inIndonesia
3rd Sea Shipment - ETA Penang (5-Jan-05) ETD Colombo (13-Jan-05) ...COMPLETED
4th Sea Shipment - ETA Penang (6-Jan-05) ETD Colombo (13-Jan-05) ..CONFIRMED
5th Sea Shipment - ETA Penang (?) ETD Colombo (?) ... via Nibong Tebal PaperMill and staffs' collection
Continuous Air Freight to Colombo from 2-Jan-05 onwards .. (Reserved forMedical Supplies)
We have also pledge just now during our ASPIRATION NITE, a sum of RM10,000to our Penang Island Tsunami Relief Fund to MERCY Malaysia.
We like to thanks again the sub-committees which consists of the Buyers(Food, Clothing & Medicine), the Operation (Packing & Loading), theLogistics Planners (Shipping & Air Freight), all the contact providers, thehelpers which round-up to be more than 500 in number working around theclock from 8.00 am to 12 midnight for the last 2 days.
With Metta & Karuna,
Chee Seng
Mahindarama for Tsunami Relief Coordinator
www.mahindarama.com <http://www.mahindarama.com/>
