A different New Year

In Banda Aceh AMURT is not only involved in collecting the corpses but is also distributing the basic necessities. Our first distribution we did inthe middle of the city of Banda Aceh on January 1, 2005. Since when I joined Ananda Marga, I always celebrated the new year with Akhanda Kiirtan and the reading of the Ananda Vanii but this time it is so different. Here in the middle of the dead city we were distributing 4,000 relief boxes containing noodles, mineral water, biscuits and milk. In that desperate situation for food, hungry people can do anything. We were so lucky that the military gave their assistance in the distribution otherwise it was just going wild.

Dada Dinakara, Banda Aceh, Indonesia


That's me (on the left)
distributing food parcels on New Year's day 2005