74486-20FIFTEEN-year-old Kelly Morshead, from Broad Hinton, has been helping out with the relief effort being organised at Wroughton Airfield.

She has written a poem to thank everyone who has helped and are still helping the tsunami appeal through donations of money, clothing, food and time.

She said: "I wrote it one evening after I had been working, boxing up various clothing and food on a particularly busy day. It is my view of the people who have spent hours helping purely out of the good of their own hearts, to no personal gain. I truly believe that the level of selfless giving since the disaster was announced has been truly remarkable. I am only 15-years-old, but even I can see this very clearly."

Tsunami relief effort

Piles of black bin liners lie on the floor

Bearing a chilling resemblance to the

Piles of bodies, ready to be lowered into mass graves.

It is not quiet here though

Rustling, sorting, packing

It goes on and on

More bags just keep being piled up

One on top of another

It seems a lot when it is here

But for millions it is just a small step

Towards the beginning of a new life

For everything they had they lost

Houses, possessions, loved ones

It is all too easy to sit

And watch the news

And take it for granted that

Things will be done

To help these sad and pitiful faces

That stare out at us through the glass

But it has to come from somewhere

And that somewhere is in the depths

Of the people's hearts

Which have been opened all over the world

And have let their love flow out

To everyone affected by this

The world's largest disaster.

KELLY MORSHEAD

Broad Hinton