I WOULD like to ask readers to give generously to an appeal for victims of the devastating cyclone in Orissa, India.
At least 10 million people have been affected by the disaster. Up to 10,000 are thought dead and two million have lost their homes. People are traumatised, desperately hungry and thirsty.
The Disasters Emergency Committee, an alliance of the UK's leading aid charities, needs money to buy food, clean water and medical supplies. Just £5 will purify a hundred litres of water; £15 will provide medicines to guard 150 men, women and children against disease.
If you can, please call 0870 60 60 900 or make a donation at any High Street bank or post office, or send your donations to me, Tom Conti, at the India Cyclone Appeal,. PO Box 999, London EC4A 9AA. Your donation really will make a difference.
TOM CONTI, actor
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