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post-tsunami relief & recovery
Indonesia [Post-tsunami] (Asia)
On December 26, 2005, an earthquake registering 9.0 on the Richter scale shattered the sea-floor of the Indian Ocean. It’s epicenter was located just off the coast of conflict-tormented Aceh, Indonesia, and leveled the Provincial Capital, Banda Aceh. Immediately a wall of water described by hundreds of survivors as taller than the palm trees swept down the coast of Aceh killing 80% of the town of Calang and 40,000 of the residents of Meulaboh. It tore across the Indian Ocean and into Sri Lanka, India, and the Maldives before colliding with the Kenyan, Somali, and Sudanese coastline of Africa. As the water receded the death-toll approached 300,000 people. It was the deadliest natural disaster in modern history.
Food for the Hungry immediately responded to the need in India, Thailand, and Indonesia and provided immediate support (food, cash for work for rubble removal) to tens of thousands of tsunami survivors. Food for the Hungry has continued to serve the communities of Aceh, Indonesia’s West Coast in the sectors of livelihood (small business grants and savings plans), education (ESL, teacher training), agriculture (seeds and tools distributions, rice intensification) and transitional shelter construction.
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