TSUNAMI
RELIEF – REQUIREMENTS & PROJECTIONS
After the initial phase of providing critical support
in terms of Make-shift Shelters, essential survival
and medical aid, we are now focusing on a structured
program designed to re-establish sustainable livelihoods,
and conserve the marine eco-system.
The basis of our re-building strategy is along the
following lines:
i) SHORT-TERM REQUIREMENTS
Provisions, Camping Gear (tarpaulin sheets, tents,
blankets, etc.), utensils, water-purifying chemicals,
sanitary / hygiene aids, vehicles for transportation,
inflatable motorized boats.
ii) MID-TERM REQUIREMENTS
Temporary low-cost housing, repair / procurement of
boats / engines, Rapid Assessment of damage to Coral
Reefs and Mangroves, selection of sites for monitoring
including a 'control' site, strategizing rehabilitation
measures in terms of devising self-employment measures
for immediate sustenance. Marine Systems Assessment
is a mid-term necessity as the Ocean environment would
have approached a quasi-equilibrium state by March.
iii) LONG-TERM REQUIREMENTS
Permanent low-cost housing structures, community reserve
centres in the Andamans and re-building of sustainable
livelihood on the islands. We envisage adopting some
villages to implement re-building processes. It is our
long-term objective and mission to address eco-system
sustenance and socio-economic sustenance as the integrated
issue it is. If the long view is not clearly understood,
a whole environment of people, fauna and flora can disintegrate
and eventually perish.
Detailing and directing the process is being synchronised
with emerging needs. We are currently involved in an
assessment of socio-economic, anthropological and ecological
facts along with our Relief efforts.
We are coordinating efforts from our Office in Mumbai
– receiving, consolidating and dispatching supplies
to the affected areas, along with disbursement of relief
funds donated and deploying experts from relevant fields
in the functional areas.
Our address – Reefwatch Marine Conservation,
Ground floor/ Priyanka bldg,
50, St. Paul Road,
Next to St. Andrews Church,
Bandra, (W)
Mumbai - 400 050.
Contact us on -
Tel - 022 2651 8206
Fax – 022 2651 8209
E/mail - reefwatchindia@reefwatchindia.org |
