Tsunami Recovery in Five Coastal Villages, India

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Summary

Providing post-tsunami help to 250 villagers, 20 urban families and 25 girl students for livelihoods recovery, home reconstruction, medical care and school enrollment in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, India progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

As relief gives way to the long and difficult process of reconstruction, project is focusing on specific actions for about 400 people to rebuild their life in Chennai and in five tsunami affected villages: two at Challanam/Karunagapally and Edavanakad/Pallithodu near Kochi, Kerala and three at Ambedkar Nagar, Kuppankulam and Pethankuppam near Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu. God-parenthood has a strong impact by helping poor children go back to school and receive medical care on a case by case basis.

Activities

1. Providing household utensils, clean water, food supplements, clothes, medical care, school supplies, sewing machines and fishing nets. 2. Repairing and rebuilding homes. 3. Protecting/sponsoring children and helping 25 girls finish high school.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $1,192
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $53,533
Total Funding Goal: $54,725

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This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Positive long-term impact is the result of prompt action/funding: when a safe environment is re-created with basic needs--proper housing, clean water, health-- 400 people will live normally again; children will go 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.
- Mother Teresa, A world renown and humble servant of the poor

Who is Running This Project

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Claudine and Bernard Dussert,
President and Treasurer
8617 Irvington Avenue
Bethesda, MD 20817-3603
United States
13015305416
Email:

Project Sponsor

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Organization

Mary Mother of Peace-Medjugorje Charity, Inc
Mary Mother of Peace-Medjugorje Charity
8617 Irvington Avenue
Bethesda, MD 20817
United States
1 301 530 5416
http://www.mmpcharity.org

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in India and can also be found under Disaster Recovery.

For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on November 20, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 25, 2006.

Latest Update from the Field

Brief update on rural teenage girls schooling

By Backiamary - In Charge of St Joseph House, Santhome, Chennai, November 20, 2008 11:21 AM

Dear Madam or Sir,

Loving greetings from Backiam.

Hope you are doing well.

With God's grace and with your support we are keeping well. Girls are doing well their studies. Now we have 20 children. I have sent a photo to Mr Mathew, project coordinator, showing the new girls studying.

Mathew visited our new premises. We could feel at home there too. The people who live in the premises are kind to us. Since the hostel is closer to the shool it is much convenient to the girls. There are more demand to join the shelter and school, but with our limited means, I am taking only the most needy.

Everything is possible because of your kind support to us. Thanking you for that.

Our Sincere prayers to you all.

With much love
Backiamary.

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