Support for the Tsunami Rebuilding Lives Fund

Corporations, foundations, individuals and academic institutions responded generously to our Tsunami Rebuilding Lives Fund. We received over Rs 4.7 cores (approximately US$ 1 million) in cash and in kind from donors from the time the fund was set up to support long-term rehabilitation projects identified by partner not-for-profit organisations and the government.

In May 2005, Give2Asia approved a grant of US$ 305,000 to support four livelihood and infrastructure projects. The priorities were:

• developing micro-credit revolving funds for women in Cuddalore and Karaikal
• providing boat building and repair yard facilities in Tamilnadu and Andaman Islands
• rebuilding and improving livelihoods for tsunami widows and destitute women through dried fish and coir fibre production in Kanyakumari District
• providing chilling units for the fishermen community in five villages of Tamilnadu