DISASTER RELIEF NGO's
Wanted:
Post-disaster housing audit
Three
years after the tsunami, hundreds of ugly cement houses have been
built along the Nagapattinam coast by different NGOs. Many are
sub-standard, some actually below sea level, many unoccupied. Why do
we keep repeating the mistakes of Latur, Gujarat, Orissa?
by
Mari Marcel Thekaekara, InfoChange News & Features,
01/01/2008
Rebuilding
lives
Work
is still going on to rebuild lives and restore livelihoods with the
active participation of 400-odd NGOs.
Nagapattinam
district bore the brunt of the tsunami in Tamil Nadu in 2004. In the
past three years, however, rehabilitation and reconstruction works
have been going on in full swing to restore the livelihoods of the
affected people, most of them fishermen and their families, and to
rebuild their homes.
by
K Subramanian, Frontline, 04/01/2008
