REFUGEES IN GUJARAT IN URGENT NEED OF HELP

The terrifying violence against minority communities that has recently
uprooted the lives of thousands of citizens in the cities, towns and
villages of Gujarat has created a humanitarian crisis of very large
proportions, with a (conservative) estimate of 100,000 people - women,
men and children - made homeless. Those members of the Muslim faith now
living in refugee camps are in urgent need of food, chlorinated water
and medicine. There is an absence of food, proper sanitation, and a lack
of adequate medicine. Typhoid, gastroenteritis and measles have broken
out in some of these camps, and the reports coming in describe people
living in conditions of absolute destitution. Neither the national, nor
the state government has responded adequately to this need.

Please give generously - to save lives, to rebuild these, and to
contribute to a society that looks after those who have suffered
terribly. Your contribution will be sent directly to organisations
working on the ground with refugees living in camps in cities such as
Ahmedabad and Baroda.

Send your cheques to: Gujarat Refugee Fund, c/o Department of
Sociology, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL. [UK]

Thank you.

For Peace, Justice and Community Harmony.