In cooperation with the "We Love Thailand Group" (WLT), we have a total of 67 completed and planned projects in 27 villages across 3 provinces totaling THB 76M, with THB 47M funding committed, (24M designated and 23M undesignated) with THB 29M funding gap. We still do have cash flow shortage whilst awaiting transfer of donor funds.
Growing recognition of WLT activity amongst government circles and the privilege of audience with Princess Sirindthorn. Good progress on WLT projects.. plus more partnerships forged.
Audience with Princess Sirindthorn at Tap La Mu school with brief outline given on WLT activity, which was shown on TV news.
Step Ahead Training centre now has 292 applications! Urgent need for more long term language and computer teachers!
Agreed basis for partnership with ADF for pre school building construction.
Research commissioned for new pre schools in Ban Koh Nok and Ta Din Daeng. Agreed list of building improvements at Tap Ta Wan with rain protection installed.
Pursuing solution for Pru Deow temporary building with Red Cross.
Clarification of AW role as dedicated (full time) Pre School coordinator, her priorities to drive up standards in existing 2 schools and plan/implement new locations, plus public charter for schools to address community concerns.
Good coordination and information sharing meeting with the new Tsunami programme director, WV as basis for increased partnership in future.
Community Facilitators and Care workers continue to settle into their roles and build relationships.
Good progress across multiple boat building projects especially Had Nai Yang distribution of nets. Most projects nearing completion in late May/June.
Good meeting with AWC who offered possibility of donations for some projects.
Links being set up between BP school and Pak Weep.
Our YWAM Thailand Phang Nga team continues to pour themselves into many villages down south.
1. If you would like to give to this effort in Thailand, monies can go to:
Standard Chartered BANK
13 B Floor - 100 Sathorn Nakorn Tower
North Sathorn Road
Silom, Bangrak
Bangkok 10500 Thailand
Account Number: THB S/A 001 0021 0457
Account Name: Youth With A Mission, Asia Relief & Development
Swift Code: SCBLTHB XXXX
REF: Thailand Tsunami Relief
2. For donations for Asian Tsunami Relief in Other Countries:
Bank: Standard Chartered
Branch: 6 Battery Road
Singapore
Account Number: 01-740-2737-0
Account Name: YWAM Asia Relief & Development
Routing # CHIPS UID - #057 220
SCB NY - AC 3582 088 503001
SWIFT # SCBLSGSG
REF: Asian Tsunami Relief in .... (specify country)
May was another fruitful month of ministry in South Thailand. With all the new Christian activity going on after the tsunami, there are lots of positive changes. People turing to Jesus, new churches forming, and lots of people witnessing the love of God in practical ways.
We, ourselves, see that our work in the Muslim village is changing as well. We find we arefocusing less on relief work and more on developing the village and it's people. For instance, instead of just fixing and replacing what was broken in terms of physical things like houses and equipment, and spiritual things such as dealing with post tsunami trauma, we are now focusing more on helping people raise their standard of living physically and spiritually as well. The houses they live in are more liveable than before. Their jobs earn more money because they can do it more efficiently with the new equipment they have. As well, development is happening on the inside. Through working together everyday, they are learning more about the ways that Jesus teaches us to live. We hope that each of them will come to know Him someday through that knowledge.
Village Rebuilding Projects
Our aid in getting villagers back into the local work force has taken a new turn this month. Clearing brush for the rubber plantations is a lucrative business and by purchasing brush cutters we have put over 10 families back to work this past month.
Due to the fact that in previous times this work was done with a cane knife and because the instructions that came with the machines is only in English and Japanese, we have also provided instructions on use of this equipment.
Children's Crisis Home
When Sien arrived at the Home a month ago Sien (now called Sarah) was a frightened and lonely little girl who sometimes couldn't sleep due to thoughts of the tsunami.
Today she is not only a happy and well adjusted 4 year old young lady but enjoys going to the beach and playing in the waves.
The official death toll from the tsunamis disaster has reached 5,200, with over 8,000 injured and about 4,000 still listed as missing. According to the latest figures released by the government's tsunami relief centre, about 5,187 people are confirmed as dead, while 8,457 are injured, and about 3,810 listed as missing. Phang-nga reported the highest death toll with 4,077 deaths and 5,597 injured.
For more info on the Phang Nga Relief Effort please contact us at: phangngarelief@csloxinfo.com
Prayer requests:
Please pray for those who have been working in Phang Nga. They are so tired and with the post traumatic stress some are finding it hard to sleep. Praise God for the Phang Nga staff though, they have been involved from the very day truck loads of people showed up at the hospital, they are awesome!
Tsunami Testimony of Chung Eng Lee
This is a testimony of Chung Eng Lee, a girl from Petaling Jaya, (near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) who went to Phuket with her sister for holidays when the tsunami hit. The local newspapers reported her survival on the following day of the catastrophe. Her testimony has certainly encouraged many.
Subject: Jesus Saved Our Life ----- 01/11/2005 09:43 -Tsunami-Phuket
It is definitely a blessing from the Lord that I could still write this email and wish you all The whole experienced has been shocking but if anything good that has come out of it, is that my personal faith, walking with the Lord has definitely soar higher and that he has spared my life to live again. I am better, my injuries are nothing, just some cuts and bruises on my head and leg through broken glasses and the knock against the glass door. Unfortunately others have not been so blessed. The pictures on papers and TV gave a clearer picture of the death and destruction, indeed all of it was not a movie but it was the actual scene which took much life away.....
Therefore, to those who have been contacting me, I am taking this opportunity to write and tell you my experience. You will also hear me mentioning about Jesus and how miraculously He saved me and my sister from death. Please note that this is my personal experience which I have encountered during the tragedy. All glory to Jesus.
25TH DEC 2004- 8pm...
The night before the incident around 8pm, both my sis and I were walking down the streets. I had this sudden urged to sing a Christian worship song which I had not sung for a long long time. So as I was walking I sang the chorus over and over again. During our walk, my heart felt uneasy. I told my sis of my uneasiness and that she had asked me to pray in tongues to the Lord. I did just that. Looking back and realizing the lyrics of the song, I now understand how merciful God is because He tried to prepare/ warn me about the tragedy.
The song entitled STILL 'Chorus'
WHEN THE OCEAN RISE AND THUNDER ROARS I WILL SOAR WITH YOU ABOVE THE STORM FATHER YOU ARE KING OVER THE FLOOD I WILL BE STILL KNOW YOU ARE GOD.
26TH DEC 6.00AM...
We were supposed to check out from one hotel and check in to another at 12.00pm on 26th Dec 2004. There was no reason for us to wake up so early since it was our much deserved holiday but on that 26th Dec 6.00am (both my sis and I which were sleeping on a separate bed) we felt as though someone was waking us up. I thought my sis woke me up to pray as she normally would but I thought, "can't be" as it was still so early. Little that I know, she felt it too and she had the same thought. I then opened my eyes and looked at her and realized that it was not our own doing. We were not scared, and concluded that the Lord wants us to wake up to pray. So we did just that and later check out way ahead of time.
9.30am-10.00am...26th December 2004
We dragged our luggage and walked along the street towards the hotel. We arrived the next hotel around 9.45am. Soon as we handed our check in slip to the receptionist, we saw people were running frantically away from the beach towards the hotel. The moment we turned our head and look in front, we saw a huge big 30ft high wave came crushing through the glass door of the reception. It was so scary as the height of the wave covered the blue sky, the whole area were darken.
We were inside the reception area, there were no way to run as the wave crashed mercilessly towards the glass door. We could hear loud noises from the shattered glass and in a split second the reception area was filled with the sea water. The water rose to our neck and we were swept against another glass door, the glass door shattered and threw us out of the reception area. We both were clinging on each other, the water swept through us and we went under the water. My mind went blank; I gulped some seawater-that was all I could remember. Somehow, somewhere in the middle of it, as everything happened so fast, we managed to cling on a wooden pillar.
At that precise moment, all we could do was to just pray. I left everything on earth at that point of time, my family, my love ones, my business, my friends, everything... There was nothing I can cry to except to GOD and I did just that. I took out all the knowledge that I learned during my bible class called Deeper Life Seminar conducted by Pastor Vernon Falls. I remembered that he always told us to pray in tongues even more when are in trouble. That was the only knowledge that I had and could use then.
We were looking at the disaster, trying to comprehend but it was chaos. Cars were crashing thru the building, gas tank were leaking, roof were tumbling down, people were screaming, we knew dead bodies were everywhere. All I did was pray and pray and all I know was to hold my sister tightly to me so that we will not separated by the strong wave. Approximately seven minutes later the second much stronger wave came andswept us again.
I am really amazed that I didn't cry nor had any panic attacked at the time. I still know what to do. In fact, there was this Thai lady who was clinging onto my sis so hard because she can't swim, she was screaming away. In time like that, I don't know how I can still think, I raised my voice at the Thai lady, so that she could hear me and asked her to stop screaming and don't panic. I told her to calm down and just pray. I saw how she hold on to my sis and was worried for my sis in case her weight might pushed my sister under the water. So I said, "don't scream, don't be panic and don't hold her so tight, It is okay, everything is going to be fine" She calmed down immediately and followed exactly what we asked her to do.
My sister has always been very strong in her devotion with the Lord. She knew that she has to safe the Thai lady by asking her to accept the Lord as her savior. I knew you think it is crazy to do so in times like that, but in Christianity, we believed that eternity life begins when you received Jesus and that we believed that when you accept Christ as your Lord and savior you automatically go to heaven. And because of that, my sister knew our situation then, was life and death and that she feels that if anything should happen to the Thai lady at least she will end up in heaven. It was really amazing in crisis like that; my sis could lead the Thai lady into prayer to accepted Christ. The Thai lady accepted Christ there and then and she joined us to pray loudly crying to the Lord, commanding the sea water to calm down and stop the wave from coming, in Jesus name". Our prayer felt stronger when the three of us prayed in agreement.
After the second wave, we took the risk to swim across to a staircase. When I was up at the balcony, the whole disaster hit me, only then I started to cry and the fear was overwhelming. There were about 20 foreigners were at the balcony, everyone was in shock, people were crying and blood were everywhere. My sister only suffered some bruises while I had a deep cut on both my feet. It was painful but the shock was unbearable. I could not take my eyes away from the sea, worried that the third wave will attack us again.
At the balcony I was still holding on to a pole, while my sister went around praying for others, telling them that Jesus will kept us safe from harm. I knew she meant well and she did not care about her own safety. She know if anything happened to us we would go to heaven so she was more concerned for the others, she also wanted them to go to heaven.
She kept telling them about Jesus and she prayed for all of them. She prayed in Jesus name to break and bind all the fear in them. I noticed, some foreigners appreciated her and accepted Christ there and then while others was calmer after the prayer. She did not allow me to cry and she told me to keep praying in tongues and worship the Lord and I did nothing but just that.
Later when she was next to me, I then asked my sister in my chocking voice "Can I sing a worship song"? She looked at me helplessly and said " OK you sing to the Lord"...Tears kept flowing down my cheek, I sang," when the oceans rise and thunders roar, i will soar with you above the storm, father you are King over the flood, I will be still know you are God" Right after I sang that song, my sister looked at me and quickly said " That's right!! That is what God is trying to tell us. He is the Kind over the flood and he is asking us to be still and know that He is GOD and he will overseas the whole situation." June continue saying " God was trying to prepare us before the tragedy that is why he gave you the song to sing last night and that is why he woke us up earlier this morning so that we could leave the room if not we would have been trapped"
I listened attentively, nodded my head, still crying and agreed that everything she said make sense. The sudden feeling of God's presence and his greatest love just flows in my heart and immediately I had peace and fear just left me. I felt the Lord was telling me "Don't worry, everything is going to be over and the wave will not come near you anymore" True enough, there was no third wave, the sea water subsided, the rescue team began to search and rescue all of us. He is truly an awesome God and He is alive and His words are real. I don't regret going through the disaster as it has make me a stronger person, and my faith in the Lord has definitely soared higher.....higher than the tidal wave for sure. God Bless you always.
Chung Eng Lee
(Petaling Jaya-Malaysia)
We had a meeting with the international Christian response group which
includes after discussions with the provincial authorities in Phangnga, the
worst hit province of affected Thai villages that included:
* All Thai Churches in country and International Churches in Bangkok and
other major cities in Thailand
* World Vision Thailand
* Food for the Hungry International
* Habitat for Humanity
* YWAM
* World Concern
* the Anglican Communion
* Other Christian agencies are being identified
* Are also identifying corporate sponsors from the Thai community that are
wanting to be involved in this united effort.
* Matching monies are being offered to the Thai church that will be
presently triple matched up to USD 400,000. We are hoping that corporate
sponsors will help increase that figure.
Have identified and begun work on the following in three villages that the government want us to assist from start to finish in rebuilding and repairing homes ( less than 500 to begin with) and then to help rebuild livelihoods of those Thais affected: 30-50% are involved in the fishing industry so assistance with repair or building of boats or setting up 3 community/village loan funds that would be owned by the villages. These outputs will be further engaged after a progress trip on Thursday and Friday.
* 10 houses in one village are being rebuilt at a time in one village all
with local builders from the villages who built their homes in the first
place. We are providing tools, materials and supplies for them to rebuild.
Hopefully after they have completed the building of 107 homes in this
village, we will contract them out for other villages to rebuild homes over
the next few months.
* Short term teams are being coordinated in several locations in Phangnga
province.
* Thai Christians are being mobilized to go and be in these villages just to
listen to people¹s stories and have a practical incarnational response as
well as prayer for people.
* Displaced centers are being visited daily.
* Children at Risk are being identified.
* Transitional housing is being built so people can get out of tents as they
start rebuilding their own homes
* Schools and other community centers are being identified that need to be
rebuild
* This is in coordination with the provincial authorities and all of the
villages will still qualify for government compensation that is being to
affected Thai people and communities who have lost homes or loved ones.
* Have identified a General Coordinator for this united response who works
with Standard Chartered Bank and Deloitte Touche will do our accounting for
us. Another web design company is helping us get a website up and running.
* A Prayer initiative has also been placed as a foundational part so that
people can have something each day that is available electronically that
they can pray for in southern Thailand as well as get progress reports and
photos.
* Meetings went on till midnite. Our next coordinating is next Monday with
email and telephone communication in between times.
Dear all,
Thanks for your words of encouragement and support. It means everything to us.
Have just finished a 3 day assessment in two southern provinces and noted the following:
* Thai government has seriously kicked into action into affected Thai
villages yesterday with military and large equipment.
* Thai distribution centers are working and getting to the people with need
on the ground.
* Have very good relationship with provincial authorities on the ground.
* Thai transitional houses are now being constructed to get affected Thais
out of tents.
* compassionate listeners are needed to help with emotional trauma for Thai
stories to be told.
* Training in crisis counseling sought in central and southern Thai
languages.
* International Xn orgs and Thai church, including YWAM, are mounting
immediate effort and over next year a response from Christians called ³WE
LOVE THAILAND,?that includes rebuilding of lives, homes and livelihoods,
trauma counseling and other gaps that are not being met by government and
wider community.
* teams continue to visit the displaced in several southern provinces.
* prayer from the local churches on Sunday for the affected villages
* outreach teams engaged in several locations.
* Input on Missing persons continue to occur on websites.
* Senior Thai government officials had meeting in Phuket today to help
better coordinate forensics and DNA so that bodies can be processed more
quickly. ( our teams have been working in this area since the beginning. We
will need to have ongoing debriefing for them)
* Pray for God¹s deepest interventions.......
Steve Goode for those in southern Thailand
P.S. I go to meet with leaders in Jakarta on the 11th and come back to Bangkok via ME for meetings for Afghanistan. Globalization is occurring when one hears from Afghanistan via cell phone to let us know that we are being prayed for from that country
The first group of workers have been replaced to give people much needed rest and relief. There is serious emotional trauma attached to this work as they have been dealing with so much grief and processing of several 1000 bodies in very basic conditions.
I am leaving Bangkok for the south this morning with an assessment team. Pray for meetings with provincial authorities in southern Thailand in the next few hours.
Teams still inputing data of missing persons, DNA, hospital verifications and identified bodies upon websites -- http://www.thaitsunami.com teams were asked today if they would travel tomorrow and include all of the six southern provinces in Thailand in this data base.
Several teams visited all of the displaced persons in Phangna province to assess how we could serve immediately with teams.
Assessment began in four of the ten affected Thai villages with YWAM and Christ Church on behalf of the Anglican communion after meeting with the representatives of the Provincial governor for Phangna (deaths in this province alone could be as high as 10,000- as many as half foreigners) Asessments continue through Thursday and then we will give a summary back to government and let them know what our capacities are.
WE LOVE THAILAND is developing momentum as a response from all of the Protestant Churches in Thailand and FHI, YWAM, World Concern, World Vision, Habitat, and others to raise between USD 2-5 million in helping to rebuild up to 30,000 Thai homes and micro-enterprise development and other economic loans.. Will keep you informed but pray as this seems to be the time where God’s love can be demonstrated very practically here in many communities.
Tsunami Relief Effort Underway
Massive tsunamis resulting from the world's largest earthquake in decades tore into southern Thailand's coast and its scores of popular resorts, where tens of thousands of foreign tourists were holidaying at the time. The waves caused catastrophic damage in several areas including the resort island of Phuket, Phi Phi island, Krabi, and the worst-hit province of Khao Lak.
More than 10,000 people were confirmed yesterday as dead or missing in Thailand as a result of Sunday's tsunami, with the most up-to-date death toll in Phang Nga alone approaching 4,000. The Interior Ministry of Thailand figures declared 4,560 dead - half of them foreigners - and another 6,479 people still missing in six Andaman Sea provinces.
YWAM Thailand grieves over the tens of thousands of people who have lost their lives, family members and homes as a result of the recent tidal wave that impacted Indonesia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka as well as Thailand.
Due to the fact that it was Christmas time, several of our YWAM Thailand staff were vacationing in or around the affected areas down south. Thankfully, none of our staff were hurt and everyone is accounted for. As you have probably also read in the news, Phang Nga was hit hard by the tsunami but again, we praise God that no one from our Phang Nga team was injured. However, we are saddened to hear reports from several of our Thai staff that they have already lost friends and family members who were not able to get to safety in time.
Would you join us in praying to the one TRUE God at this time for those affected so deeply by this disaster?
For up to the minute news on the situation, please check out The Nation Newspaper
We currently have teams working in the affected areas but rescue workers are still assessing the damage and needs to be able to properly coordinate the relief effort. We will be posting more information here very soon.
I talked earlier today to a YWAMer in Phuket who spent New Years Eve on the compound of a Buddhist temple surrounded by 1000's of dead bodies on dry ice....she was helping the forensic teams collect DNA samples for easier body identification. She said that the dry ice in the evening cool provided a smoke that was surreal and as she looked and saw the other forensic team dressed in white protective clothes and masks and small lights, it looked like something out of Hollywood but she has been living in this blur since last Sunday......Death .Tolls will go much higher.....
As we are gearing up for 50 DAYS, 4 K RESPONSES ?MY HEART WEEPS....I HAVE NOT KNOWN WHAT TO DO WITH MY EMOTIONS SEEING FAMILIES WHO JUST CAME FOR A NICE HOLIDAY OR THAIS GOING ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS IN ONE MOMENT AND THE NEXT...... SEVERAL SAVAGE WAVES --- LIVES FOREVER CHANGED -----
IT IS GOING TO TAKE A DEPTH OF COMPASSION THAT WE HAVE NOT HAD AS A MISSION. LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR...........BEING MOVED WITH COMPASSION LIKE JESUS THAT COMPELLED TO ACTION...........THOSE VULNERABLE.....THOSE WITHOUT A VOICE......THOSE WITH AIDS....THOSE IN CRISIS.....
GOD HELP US IN OUR RESPONSES.........Would you take a moment now to remember all of those who have lost or who are assisting in the relief efforts?
STEVE GOODE
From: "G. Stephen Goode" Subject: Update on southern Thailand
Dear All,
Thanks for your continued prayers for those affected by the Tsunami.
One of our teams shifted from Phangna to Phuket and they were asked to enter in English all of the DNA data on the missing or dead. They are working with the Thai Forensics Department and 11 international forensic groups. This will be put up on a website immediately where hopefully it will be easier for people to be identified. One person was found alive today amongst the rubble of six days. Unfortunately, 1,600 dead bodies were also recovered today. This number will go higher.
Another team in Phangna has identified a Muslim village that has lost most of their 107 homes. Many of them are construction people so if they can buy tools and equipment, they can start rebuilding. Initial estimates are that it will cost around 6 million Baht or approx USD 150,000 to rebuild.
I am also planning on an assessment trip to Aceh, so would appreciate your continued prayers for that hardest hit area.
We drove back from Phuket to Bangkok as well. We were hoping to bring another step of closure in our grieving process by spreading the ashes of our friend Nancy Ross in the Andaman Sea but that did not work out. We will wait for another time. Grief and shock are everywhere but I have been so proud of the response of the Thai people to this tragedy. There is an outpouring of practical help and volunteering. May God continue to show us our part in this response as a Mission.
Thank you,
Steve and Marie
This is an update from Steve and Marie Goode who are coordinating YWAM's tsunami response in Thailand with 100+ staff, focusing on the hard hit region of Phuket and Phangna. They are working alongside Thai national relief teams who are doing a great job regardless of what you may have heard in the press.
The tsunami alert system was used by some here (and it seemed to work) but many did not heed the Thai warnings on the first day.
Thurs Dec. 30 Report (Friday in Asia)
Today, the 600 foreign patients are down to 3 in the Phangna hospital. All dead bodies are being kept in three wats (temples) and busloads of people are coming to try and identify the bodies. Forensic DNA people are trying to facillitate identification but it is a zoo here. We'll have a report in a few hours as to what happened today in southern Thailand.
Wed. Dec. 29 Report (Thurs. in Asia)
One of the reasons you may not heard from anyone is that the phones here are getting through on only 1 out of 30-40 tries.
It has been an incredible last four days operating from Phuket and Phangna.
Mark and Doreen and the Phangna team and John and Kim Quinley and family from Bangkok who used to be in Phangna have been doing an incredible job.
Doreen, a nurse who has been doing everything from translating from several languages to visiting morgues looking for a 9 month old baby girl and listening to story after story.
Marie and I spent the day in Phangna district one hour north of Phuket in southern Thailand helping Kim, who is the point person at the Phangna hospital, to coordinate one hundred volunteers into multiple teams doing lots of tasks including:
?at two hospitals ?setting up a variety of stations for people looking for loved ones
?assisting people making long distance telephone calls to loved ones (a local company is doing this for free)
?translating with Thai hospital with the multiple languages of people affected. 28 Embassies have come to Phuket to set up embassy inquiry stations.
?listening to stories of people caught in the Tsunami and trying to find word of those who may have survived. Answering questions from lots of inquiries. Finding multiple language doctors to assist patients.
?Visiting wards and getting updated records on foreigners that are presently being treated and developing master lists for embassies and hospital staff as most people do not have any identification and some are in serious condition.
?Coordinated teams to go to local Thai temples where several thousand bodies are being kept for identification. Many if not most are not recognizable due to salt water, decomposition and injury but loved ones still are coming and wanting to look and see. The Thai Forensic department is here taking DNA samples of all of the dead so that they can be traced more than just through visual identification. Today many are just now arriving from Scandanavia to search for loved ones and trauma teams and counseling teams are also hopefully arriving to be available for families in crisis.
?John, Mark, Duane from World Concern and I visited several Thai villages that have been wiped out - one village, Ba Kim, about one and half hours north of Phangna - lost more than 1,500 people and the village has just a few buildings standing. Most people there at the time did not make it.
?John, Mark and Duane continued on an hour further north into Muslim areas affected with the same report -- villages devastated and loss of life.
?Delivered relief goods to a local hospital and donation center.
?Coordinated in-country teams to assist in this crisis.
?Communicating and coordinating with YWAM response teams working in India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia in Tsunami-hit areas and with international inquiries about locating YWAM outreach teams in these areas.
Sufficient workers in Thailand
There seems to be sufficient response teams for Thailand for now, as some foreign relief teams are starting to be airlifted to other countries. We still need Thai speakers. Other neighbor countries have been the worst hit and the death count continues to rise. In Thailand, we have people in-country with outreach teams who can be mobilized if needed but the injured expatriates are being cared for by local hospitals and then airlifted as quickly as possible back to home countries.
World Concern, Food for the Hungry, Operation Blessing and YWAM are meeting this afternoon (Thrusday in Asia) to take a look at what can be done in the rebuilding of homes in Thai villages, including the Muslim areas which may be overlooked.
YWAM will be coordinating this effort in consultation with these other organizations.
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**NEW** Royapuram - 2 weeks later (part 1)
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Foreshore Estates (North) - Fishing Boats & Aid
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Besant Nagar slum (part I) - beach debris
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Colachel tsunami destruction - part I
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YWAM - Tsunami Disaster Relief Projects in India
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YWAM Distribution of surgical masks at Colachel
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