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Three Years after the Tsunami: Helping Children Survive and Thrive

by gaffri | January 22, 2008 at 04:56 pm | 331 views | add comment

It's good to know that help reached the affected areas of the devastating tsunami . It's just sad to think that it is sometimes a major disaster with lots of deaths that is needed before people react and unfortunately people tends to forget after a while like in many of the other places around the world where atrocities and suffering takes place...

Three Years after the Tsunami: Helping Children Survive and Thrive

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Westport, CT (December 14, 2007) — In what has become the biggest emergency response in its history, Save the Children is reporting this month that it has assisted up to 1 million people — a majority of whom are children — who survived the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Asia and Africa on December 26, 2004.

"Three years after this enormous catastrophe, Save the Children continues to stand by hundreds of thousands of children and family members who survived the disaster in more than 1,000 villages in five countries: Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and Somalia," said Save the Children President and CEO Charles MacCormack.

"As a result of the tremendous generosity of donors worldwide, children are attending new schools, families are moving into new homes, fishermen have new boats to maintain their livelihoods, and thousands of teachers, healthcare workers and small business owners are getting the training they need to do their jobs more effectively," MacCormack said.

"Perhaps our greatest achievement has been the transformation in the lives of many children who survived the tsunami and now have hope for a better future," he said.