Tsunami Disaster Relief Efforts

152 Homeless Families Receive Temporary Homes

As of April 23rd, 2005 we have provided housing for 152 families in our Triple Gem housing units. The Triple Gem Society Camp number 6 was opened on the 23rd of April. Twenty-eight more families moved into the individual units there. Now all together we have provided temporary homes for one hundred and fifty two…

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89 Homeless Families Move Into Temporary Housing

The Triple Gem Society tsunami housing project has successfully completed 70 family units in five different locations. We are delighted to inform you that we now have a Triple Gem Camp No. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. These camps are actually large buildings, composed of up to 20 individual one-room family units. As you…

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Triple Gem Transitory Housing Scheme

On the 12th of April, 26 homeless families moved into their 130 square feet private homes. For over three months they have lived in a crowded school near Baticaloa. They had no Privacy and slept on floor mats with 20 other families in a crowed hall. The school located in the village of Kalladi near…

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Construction of Toilets And Drinking Water Facilities

When large number of families live in refugee camps it is easy to spread disease and hard to maintain proper hygienic conditions, especially without toilets and water. I saw this problem in some of the refugee camps. Some camps had no water and the ones that did have water did not have enough. The same…

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Triple Gem Housing Projects

I am glad that this time I can share with you more good news. In two different locations in Kalmunai we built thirty housing units. On the 26th and 27th of February as we dedicated the premises 30 homeless families got a private space where they can call home until the permanent housing for them…

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Disease Prevention and Containment

Just after tsunami, while the death toll was still rising, there was a great fear of spread of disease. Fortunately the predictions were wrong, but that concern is still there. Disease prevention remains of critical importance, especially minimizing the spread of mosquito and water-borne illness. Recently, when I was visiting a refugee camp, a father…

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Triple Gem Society Refugee Camp

Meeting the basic needs for day-to-day survival is also most critical in the short-term. Millions of dollars have been donated to private and government organizations. Yet, everybody who goes to the camps and sees the conditions of the effected villages questions where this money has gone. There are organizations that are doing wonderful work and…

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Building Fifty More Temporary Shelters

By now the government should have provided temporary shelters to all the effected families. Despite the considerable sum of money received from around the world, the government is very inefficient and many people complain that it is slow and careless. I have many reasons to believe them. My projects in the camps are being supervised…

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Feeding the Refugees

As of the end of January we have given over five thousand meals to the hungry. We will keep looking for families and refugees in the camps who are not getting the government help in time or getting too little help from the government and provide meals for them. These people have lost everything and…

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Health Care and Medical Equipment

Through my health care contacts, we are constantly assessing the needs of hospitals and clinics in order to provide the most useful medical equipment and instruments. On Monday the 7th of february we donated a heart monitor and essential medicines to Kalmnai hospital. The heart monitor if brand new will be worth about US $12,000.…

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