Tsunami Recovery in Four Fishing Villages, India
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Summary
In order to rebuild the livelihoods of surviving victims and protect children, we provide boats and fishing nets to fishermen; shelter for villagers, especially orphans, and medical/ school supplies.
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Received $34,474 from 32 donations from people like:
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Project is focusing on specific actions for about 300 tsunami victim families in four villages in southern India: three at Karunagapally, Edavanakad, Pallithodu near Kochi, Kerala, one near Chennai, Tamil Nadu (and initially one near Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, component now completed). Villages are located in ex-disaster areas. Fully resuming fishing takes time, and the burden of feeding the family still falls in great part on women. Many families need medical help and children need go to school.
Activities
1. Distribution of household utensils, kerosene stoves, baby food, clean water, fishing nets, flashlights, medical/school supplies. 2. Volunteer and community assistance to repair fishing boats/engines, build new boats, and train young fishermen
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $34,474
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $20,526
Total Funding Goal: $55,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Resources
Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
Positive long-term impact will be the result of prompt action/funding: when a safe environment is re-created with basic needs--proper housing, clean water, tools--people can work again and children can safely go back to school, key for the future.
Project Message
“What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight. Build anyway; the good you do today, people may forget tomorrow: do good anyway."
- Dr. Claudine and Bernard Dussert, President/Treasurer, quoting Mother Teresa
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on May 13, 2008.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 06, 2005.
Latest Update from the Field
Joseph Enok, young tsunami survivor and cardiac patient has died
By Mathew Sebastian (+Bernie) - Field Operations Supervisor (+ MMP-MC Treasurer), May 13, 2008 04:57 PM
From Mathew:
Dear Benefactors at MMP-MC and GlobalGiving
Loving greetings from Kochi, India!
We regret to inform that our little child Joseph Enock, left us for ever at 8pm on Saturday and was buried at 2pm on Sunday at cemetery of St.Mary’s church Chellanam, Kochi. All our JY/JS leaders were sad along with the parents of Joseph Enock and we are praying that his soul rest in peace. He was not yet 3 years old.
Earlier we had informed that the child father had agreed to take appointment with chief Cardiologist after a prayer retreat and finalise the date of heart surgery. But even after the retreat the child health condition did not improve making dangerous to do the surgery because he was suffering from fever and cough. Let us accept our limitations and obey the will of God!
We are thinking: what favourable service can we extend to this family due to this unfortunate situation? You may remember they are living in a little hut near a sea shore partly destroyed during the tsunami. Is there any possibility we can support them to build a new more decent house? So far we have spent for Joseph Enok around Rs.95, 000/- (US$2,375) for treatment during these two years. If this is ok with project benefactors we could proceed with this or we can find other needy persons who need financial support for medical care and medicines or any suggestions benefactors may have, please advise and give us your best support. Thank you.
We wish you all the best. May the Lord Bless you to lead a life for the deprived!
With warm regards,
Mathew Sebastian
Field Operations Supervisor
Comments from Bernie, MMP-MC Treasurer
1/ One of our benefactors for Joseph Enok heart surgery wrote to us the following letter:
"Bernie and Claudine,
Colleen and I were saddened to hear the news about little Joseph. We can only imagine the pain and sorrow which his parents have had to endure. Thank God for our faith. All the prayers for little Joseph have been heard by Our Lord.
We are in full agreement that money should be used to help the family and/or Charity medical program.
If you can, please let Joseph’s parents know that we are very sorry about their loss. We are praying for them.
Frank and Colleen"
2/ Our volunteers in India have identified a new candidate, Samsun Sunny, for MMP-MC medical support through this GlobalGiving funded project, while help will be also be given to Joseph Enok’s family to settle Joseph final hospital bills, and to start building a small, more decent house for the family. We recently received this note from our partners JY/JS in India:
“...Following are the details of the new cardiac patient:
Name of the patient Samsun K Sunny
Age: 11 Yrs
Father’s Name: K P Sunny
Address: S/o Late Paulose
Kottil House, Gandhigram
Irinjalakuda
Father's Job Driver – contract
Mother Housewife
Two Brother's
8 year's and 6 year's old
Other details: Samsun studies in 5th standard grade. He was admitted in different hospitals in Irinjalakuda and Trichur due to vomiting since February 12, 2008. His disease was diagnosed as Cardiac Miopathy at Mother's Hospital Trichur and the doctors there referred him to Amrutha Hospital. On March 3rd he was admitted in the ICU of Amrutha Hospital, in Ernakulam. His hospital admission number is 657941. His consultant Doctor is Dr. Krishnakumar. After being admitted to Amrutha Hospital he suffered 3 cardiac arrests. During this period he underwent various tests & treatments and was in ventilator for some days. For a treatment named E P Test and R. F ablation Rs. 28,000 (US$700) was paid. Eco test is done daily. In the initial days expenditure for medicine & ICU rent was around Rs. 3,000 per day(US$75). After the repeated cardiac arrests and the corresponding treatments the expenditure increased to Rs. 5000/ per day (US$125). Yesterday afternoon he was shifted to ward under strict observation... Mathew"
Comments: What has been paid so far with the help of local collections with family neighbors and our JY/JS Friends, amounts to about US$1,500. They have exhausted local possibilities for more financial support and the family of Samsun is poor. Our volunteers have suggested to try and save this boy now that Joseph Enok has died. He is in the care of doctors at same good hospital where Joseph Enok was treated for pneumonia and was about to be operated. Family lives about 50 miles North of Kochi. We told our JY/JS partners that MMP-MC will raise new funds for this new case as needed. We told them to give also some money for Joseph family as they suggested. The worrying aspect is that Samsun apparently has difficulties to move since the time he was urgently hospitalized about two months ago. Thank you for your help. Bernie
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