Tsunami Recovery in Five Coastal Villages, India

Under this reconstruction project, our priority is to rebuild destroyed homes, helping refugees find a decent place to live, providing them with clean water, medical care, and opportunities to make a living.

Project also supports a shelter for disaster affected and homeless girls in Santhome near Chennai where the key goal is to help them graduate from high school and learn a trade. This component of the project has been particularly successful in 2008.

Thanks to GlobalGiving donors and other funding, project was also able to repair 5 homes and to rebuild 4 homes for victim families in Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

To promote better results overall in 2009 we work closely in partnership with the dedicated Indian Non-proft Charity Jeevana Samridhi (Life in Abundance) very active in Southern India.

In this way, we ensure that each dollar received is properly used and has a positive impact. We are making schedules of tasks, list of services provided and of beneficiaries at village or shelter level, and we monitor construction progress every 3 months in coordination with Jeevana Samridhi.

Many poor families still need help for home rebuilding while staying in good health and earning a living. Donor feedback would be highly appreciated on how they believe we could do a better job.

Thank you to help these families fight poverty and adversity to build hope and peace, and to help us make new progress together on reaching soon project goals.

Dear GlobalGiving Friend, Providing technical assistance for livelihoods recovery in these villages in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, continuing home reconstruction in disaster affected areas, and educating young girls for a better future are the focus of this project since end 2006. Weak funding result in 2007 and 2008 is quite a challenge to do better in 2009.

I ask you to open your heart to those in crisis under this project. Your generous gift to GlobalGiving for this project will help the hungry and homeless in this region. It will also help the working poor who struggle every day, yet can't make ends meet four years after the tsunami. Your gift will give help and hope to nourish the bodies and the souls of village people in their hour of deepest needs. Budget need for 2009 is US$25,000. It includes medical assistance for a few critical cases. Thank you for your support in these difficult times whatever the amount you can afford.