ACTED: Inland fisheries rehabilitation programme

Since the inception of its intervention in South India, ACTED (Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development) has endeavoured to bring relief to tsunami victims who had remained beyond the scope of general emergency operations. Funded by the European Commission Humanitarian Aid department, ACTED's effort on the rehabilitation of marginal inland fisheries in the districts of Thanjavur and Cuddalore is part of this same logic. Read more...

ACEH: New Tsunami Recovery Projects In Aceh and NIAS

AmeriCares, the international nonprofit humanitarian agency, announced today that it is funding more than US$7.7 million worth of new projects to aid recovery in the tsunami affected areas of Aceh and Nias. Undertaken in partnership with a variety of non-governmental organizations working in the region, these programs address some of the most pressing issues of the recovery effort, including health care, water supply/sanitation needs, and livelihood issues. Read more...

SRI LANKA: Ensuring fishermen's future

Sri Lankan fishermen affected by the tsunami are back at sea thanks to the new boats and nets they received through the Red Cross. A total of 61 fibreglass fishing boats and nets were replaced in the Batticaloa district, of east Sri Lanka in a joint Sri Lankan and British Red Cross initiative.This is part of a wider livelihoods programme to not only support vulnerable communities but also diversify the way they earn a living. The Batticaloa fishermen agree there is a need to provide alternative employment. Read more...

FAO: Inferior Boatbuilding Undermines Tsunami Tecovery
FAO today again urged authorities in tsunami-affected countries to redouble their efforts to ensure that fishing boats built to replace those destroyed during the 2004 disaster meet minimum safety standards. The UN agency also called on all organizations financing boat construction to pay closer attention to the safety and quality of craft being built and to take steps to upgrade or replace sub-standard boats already in place. Read more..

INDONESIA: BRR Hands Over 1209 New Houses and House Rehabilitation Fund
NIAS, Indonesia, March 28, 2006 –In commemorating one year after the 8.7 Richter scale-earthquake struck Nias Islands, the Agency for Rehabilitation and Reconstruction (BRR) of Aceh and Nias hands over 1209 ready-to-use reconstructed houses built by NGOs, international institutions and the BRR to the people of Nias who have become victims of the earthquake. At the occasion, BRR also conveys house rehabilitation fund to those who are ready to revitalize their damaged houses. Read more...

INDONESIA: Aid group halts troubled tsunami house project
Save The Children organisation executive director John Bowis told Wellington's Dominion Post an internal audit had found that up to 250 of the 768 houses it was building in Aceh might be defective. He said construction was suspended immediately after the problem came to light two months ago and contracts with three housing inspectors, believed to be Indonesians, terminated for failing to do their jobs properly. Bowis said all houses found not to meet the organisation's standards would be repaired or rebuilt. Read more..

SRI LANKA: Community center to open for tsunami victims
community center for tsunami victims in Sri Lanka, financed by a Jewish group, is set to open this week. The center in the Lagoswatte Eco-Village, scheduled to open Tuesday, was financed by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. The center includes a bank that will provide small-scale loans, a clinic and a vocational center that will serve as many as 5,000 villagers in the area. The community center is the first of four that the JDC is building in Sri Lanka along with Sarvodaya, a Sri Lankan nonprofit group. Read more...

ACEH: Acehnese women learn to fend for themselves
The long-suffering women of Indonesia's Aceh province, thousands of them widowed or abandoned by their husbands, are fighting the odds and Islamic traditions to rebuild their lives. But in the tiny village of Tampoek Blang, an economic development and women's empowerment program launched by the World Bank has given them new hope. Read more...

South Asia: Inferior boatbuilding undermines tsunami recovery
FAO urged authorities in tsunami-affected countries to redouble their efforts to ensure that fishing boats built to replace those destroyed during the 2004 disaster meet minimum safety standards. The UN agency also called on all organizations financing boat construction to pay closer attention to the safety and quality of craft being built and to take steps to upgrade or replace sub-standard boats already in place. Read more...

INDONESIA: Tsunami reconstruction chief raps NGOs
The head of Indonesia's tsunami reconstruction programme threatened on Monday to throw out international aid agencies from the devastated province of Aceh if they didn't submit progress reports by June. Some international aid groups have exaggerated their work in the multi-billion dollar reconstruction programme in Aceh, Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, the chief of the BRR, the government agency in charge of rebuilding. Read more...

INDIA: Cash-strapped schools force tsunami affected to pay
Fear is writ large on Samuthiravalli's face. She is too scared to enter the one place she loved above all-her school, the Sa.Su higher secondary school. As child right's activists Arivoli and Dhanam cajole her, she relents and agrees to accompany them to her school. Read more...

INDIA: Tsunami victims to abstain from voting
Elections or no elections, for nearly 50 families of Alapad, life is today at a standstill. They are all the tsunami victims but they don't blame the waves, which destroyed their livelihood as much as the government for its callousness.Now they feel enough is enough and have resolved that they will not vote in these elections. Read more...

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