Road to Recovery
Rebuilding communities and lives affected by this disaster will take some time. Away from the cameras, aid agencies, government bodies and community groups are still hard at work helping the people recover. Among these is the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA).
In India, ADRA recognises the unique vulnerability of women widowed by the tsunami, and so, in response, has implemented the Tsunami Relief and Restoration Initiative for Women in districts within the Tamil Nadu State and Pondicherry Union Territory of India.
Women who’ve lost husbands in the tsunami are classed as having “increased vulnerability,” because they’re now providing for their family—often without a regular income and, in many cases, even livelihood opportunities. For many, they have limited income-related skills and education. The project will help them gain access to income-generation programs, so they can get a livelihood and offer security for their family. It will also provide support and counselling, health education and vocational skills.
In Indonesia, in collaboration with UNICEF, ADRA has taken a lead role in addressing the educational needs of tsunami victims.
ADRA is working on an Emergency School Rehabilitation project, which aims to restore a functional school system, with a strengthened capacity to manage traumatised students and teachers.
Through this 18-month project, ADRA hopes to facilitate a return to normal life through rehabilitating or constructing a number of schools and providing material, equipment and supplies to those schools.
ADRA will also provide a training program for teachers and administrators on psychosocial counselling, disaster preparedeness and management.
And, in Thailand, ADRA has committed to a project that will provide water and sanitation rehabilitation, community and household recovery, and health and psychosocial support, benefiting at least 20,000 people.
This reconstruction project will provide, among other things, mobile psychosocial care units and a mobile medical unit. ADRA will also help with the repair and construction of public buildings, fishing piers, bridges and canals.
Throughout the three-year project, assessment and evaluation of needs will continue to determine the best way forward for the people of South East Asia and their communities.
These are only a few of the many reconstruction projects ADRA is involved with across the devastated regions, continuing with the people on the road to recovery, and to which ADRA hopes a concerned and caring public will be willing to give.
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