Disaster management officials said there had been a huge outpouring of sympathy for victims with donations of food, clothing and dry rations.
Farmers are cut off from their land, fisherman from the sea -- and reduced to surviving on dry rations from the government.
In Dry Rations, he writes: "All human emotions – love, friendship, envy, concern for one's fellow man, compassion, longing for fame, honesty – had left us with the flesh that had melted from our bodies during their long fasts".
It is supporting the day-to-day, essential needs of individuals and households whose lives and livelihoods have been affected either by ebola itself, or by the effect of quarantine, for example by supplying dry rations and water.
For five years the central government has provided grain to states for school lunches, but to cut costs many states just give children monthly dry rations instead of daily meals.
Its inhabitants also have to deal with the threat of violence from the armed groups beyond the perimeter whenever they venture out to gather the firewood needed to cook their dry rations.
Relatedly, we read in Dry Rations that "a human being survives by his ability to forget", but the statement is made ironical by appearing within a story that is itself a conscious act of remembrance.
It was also swayed by the need for Tamil votes in the hotly contested presidential election to be held on January 26th.Almost at once dozens of displaced civilians started taking their staple dry rations to town.
When typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines in November, Brett Moore, World Vision's shelter adviser, bought three Toyotas, 500 litres of water, dry rations, petrol and mosquito nets, and boarded the night ferry from Cebu to Tacloban, the city worst-hit by the storm.
