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Disaster RecoveryTsunami Recovery in Four Fishing Villages, India
Tsunami Recovery in Four Fishing Villages, India
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Tsunami survivor Maha, now 15 years old, is shown here (in red) with her family. She is doing well at school. Her father is a very poor rickshaw driver and her mother is cleaning houses. Maha wants to become a physician to better combat the consequences of natural disasters on the health of people. Thanks to Global Giving and God-parents her dream can become a reality.
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Roy Family temporary shelter in Kerala
Four years after the tsunami, the Roy family still lives in a temporary shelter. Construction of a new decent home has started in 2008. To complete it, $4,000 is urgently needed.
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Meredith Landis from GlobalGiving visits tsunami-a
Joyful high school girls welcome Meredith with flowers and smiles when Ms. Backiam, Director of the shelter introduced her to these former tsunami victims. "It is very inspiring to see these girls so happy to go to school", said Meredith after the visit on February 5, 2007. She was accompanied by Mathew Sebastian, our local project supervisor.
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Tsunami displaced girl students
Project is helping the girls go back to school and complete a high school degree in Santhome. In 2009, 25 girls are attending school regularly
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Tables and benches were bought with Global Giving funds (US$900). The girls do not sit anymore on a cement floor to study and school results improved dramatically in 2007 and 2008. 20 girls have already graduated, and in 2009, 25 poor girls --only a few are now tsunami victims--are attending school, making the project sustainable over time.
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Rebuilding lives take years
Fishing boats component has been completed.
Medical assistance for women, babies and children still an essential activity of post tsunami reconstruction
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Fishermen, Tamil Nadu, back to the sea
Fishing boats component has been completed.
Supplying a few additional fishing nets will help the most disadvantaged families.
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Prayerful gratitude of a poor fisherman
Step by step Global Giving is making a difference in the life of poor people in need.
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Relief phase has been completed. Rebuilding homes and livelihoods, however, is a long and painful process leading to new hope.
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Joyful Village Children
Children were smiling again to life when we visited their village --Pettankunam near Cuddalore-- with two local volunteers in January 2006 to assess post-tsunami needs. A new devastating flood had hit the village in November 2005, destroying many poorly built houses. Reconstruction is under way led by a major Indian Christian relief agency. In 2006/2007, project provided a few sewing machines for young women, medical assistance and school supplies as needed. The school has been reopened.
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Tsunami Recovery in Four Fishing Villages, India
Photo from Progress Report 'Children smile again to life'
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Tsunami Recovery in Four Fishing Villages, India
Photo from Progress Report 'Children smile again to life'
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Tsunami Recovery in Four Fishing Villages, India
Photo from Progress Report 'Children smile again to life'
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Thanks to GlobalGiving donors, these poor girls attend school
Photo from Progress Report 'Consolidated results and action under way in 2009'
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Thenmozhi and Tanimozhi
Photo from Progress Report 'Children in difficulty'
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Preethi
Photo from Progress Report 'Children in difficulty'
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Rose-Mary Asha family
Photo from Progress Report 'Children in difficulty'
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Tsunami Recovery in Four Fishing Villages, India
Photo from Progress Report 'Joseph Enok, young tsunami survivor and cardiac patient has died '
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Tsunami Recovery in Four Fishing Villages, India
Photo from Progress Report 'Help needed for St Joseph's house for poor rural teenage girls'
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Photo - Sr. Backiam and the girls of her hostel
Photo from Progress Report 'Observations from a project visit'
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Photo - The girls eat dinner in the hostel
Photo from Progress Report 'Observations from a project visit'
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Photo - The chirldren who commute to school from Kannagi Nagar
Photo from Progress Report 'Observations from a project visit'
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Joseph Enok in the arms of his mother Dayana
Photo from Progress Report 'Thank you for rebuilding our livelihoods!'
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Fishermen village women have a say in all investment decisions
Photo from Progress Report 'Thank you for rebuilding our livelihoods!'
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Tsunami displaced girl students in Santhome: meal time
Photo from Progress Report 'Thank you for rebuilding our livelihoods!'
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Joyful children
Photo from Progress Report 'Photo Update 2'
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Rope making
Photo from Progress Report 'Photo Update 2'
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Program children
Photo from Progress Report 'Photo Update 2'
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Kids at sunset
Photo from Progress Report 'Photo Update'
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Boat repair
Photo from Progress Report 'Photo Update'
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A young fisherman
Photo from Progress Report 'Photo Update'
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