DanChurchAid
India
Rebuilding Lives and Hope after Tsunami
04.06.2009:
An inspiring bouquet of hope, the Tsunami Tales is a collection of real life stories of people who build their lives after the devastating Tsunami hit Asia in December of 2004.
"Tsunami tales" is a collection of stories on the lives of people affected by the devastating Tsunami that hit the coast of Tamil Nadu and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India.
The stories are a reflection of the most important changes that have occurred in the lives of those who were affected, with DanChurchAid and our partner’s intervention.
Tsunami tales is about the survivors of the deluge that rendered thousands of people homeless, orphaned, poor and needy. The stories captured here are about the lives of communities that re-built themselves. The stories published here, go beyond documenting the deaths and loss faced by primary survivors, to enumerate the situations of the secondary victims. They capture the situations of people with multiple identities, further victimized by the Tsunami and the assertion of their rights.
The tsunami tales is about a single women’s struggle to earn a livelihood as a resident of a secondary tsunami affected village; it is about a Dalit community asserting their right for a community brick kiln; it’s about children enrolling and attending school because of contact with NGO’s which placed themselves their after the Tsunami and about a self help group for men.
The Tsunami tales weaves together 23 stories of hope. They are the stories of the lives of people, survivors of the Tsunami and secondary victims who were able to bring a change to their life situations by grasping on to opportunities, provided to them.
The tsunami tales are a testament of the ethos of DCA’s work, to develop capacities of people and communities under the rights based approach. It is a reflection of our commitment to our partners and the people we serve to effect not just immediate but long term change to people’s lives and their situations.
An outcome of the evaluation team’s effort to inform the DCA Tsunami Programme partners, the Tsunami tales also formed the basis for a number of recommendations for future responses to large scale disasters, reported in the DCA India Tsunami Programme Assessment for Learning (TPAL) Report, DCA 2009.
Written by Priyanka Mukherjee
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