All India Disaster Mitigation Institute, India

"We had heard about tidal waves in the sea. The coastal area has turned into a graveyard. The landscape has changed in many areas forever." - Mr. Nathaniya in Andamans ||||| "I saw it, with my eyes. The land separated in two parts. People just died. It is still horrible to remember. I had never seen it before. Now I see it everyday, in fact at Car Nicobar no one has seen this behaviour of sea before. We are living with sea since ages here." - Johnson in Andamans. ||||| "Nobody knew what was coming. We just saw a wall of water coming towards us. We had no option. We ran towards forest. Those who managed survived, those who failed, went away with the seawater. Fortunately I survived with my family. The Indian Air Force rescued me after two days. I spent these two days in forest with my elder son. Now I received the news about my younger son who is only nine months and safe with my mother in law." -Estervelina in Andamans ||||| "We, here inside Chennai, are not much affected but our friends in the other rural parts are severely affected. We have collected more than 4000 pairs of clothes and have distributed 400 in three relief camps. Our neighbours received them with thanks. But NGOs came and there was flood of clothes. Neighbours do not want our clothes. We would be thankful if the remaining clothes can be distributed to the affected communities in the far off Nagapattinum or Cuddlore. May be they also have too many clothes." - Sundervardhani and Laxmi in Chennai |||||

Education after Emergency of Tsunami
AIDMI Team in Tsunami Affected Coastal India
(Distribution fo education kits comprising of school bag, school uniform, and stationery at Sri Ramakrish Middle School, near Singarvellar Nagar at Roypuram area at North Chennai to support children of tsunami affected fisherman community.
January 13, 2005 and January 19, 2005.)

School Manager Mr. K. Raja Sekaran.	Tailor Mr. K. Salavutheen taking measurement for A. Sujitha Dharsini, a class VI student.	Tailor Mr. K. Salavutheen taking measurement for P. Vasanth Kumar, a class I student.
Teachers R. Kamalaveni (Right) and S. Manjula (Left) ensured systematic distribution process in an organised way.	P. Nathini, a class III student registering on her own with teacher S. Manjula. Children found this exciting.	P. Malathy is happy as she received colourful new ribbon. This completed her school uniform.
School bags were classified by name and class so that it goes to appropriate student.	S. Devaki, student of class I receiving the school bag and stationery items from school manager Mr. K. Raja Sekaran.	School administration and the teachers posed for a group photo after their efforts to help some of the affected children.