g term activities identified:
c. Re-establish the destroyed environment :
Edited extract from http://www.ifg.org/analysis/WFFP%20Tsunami.html
The disastrous tsunami hit the southern part of Thailand in 6 provinces, Phu-ket, Phang-nga, Ra-nong, Kra-bi,Trang and Sa-tul. It is really difficult time for all 418 poor fisherfolk villages in these provinces as the Tsunami had taken away their life, husbands, wife, children, cousin, houses, boats, fishing gears and most important their hope and human dignity. After the situation 2 days, the Federation of Southern Fisherfolk which is part of Assembly of the Poor and La Via Campesina together with 30 civil groups, NGOs, and academicians in the South, North, West, Northeast, and Central have been formed themselves as the Coalition Network for Andaman Coastal Community Support to immediate support and release help for these fisherfolk communities.
The network had set the teams to relieve, help and do fact finding in all fisherfolk villages for the last 9 days. We found out and divided the impacts in these communities into 2 groups.
The first community group are severely affected as their communities had been completely destroyed. All houses, all boats, fishing gears had been gone with the wave (30 communities). This group included the minority group who live in the sea and small islands, like Mor-gan and U-rak-ra-woy.
The second community group (124 communities) are less critical than the first group but seriously need the support. As some of their houses, boats, fishing gears, and farm land had been destroyed in the difficult way to live or make a living. So far the network and the Federation of Southern Fisherfolk had surveyed in 186 fisherfolk villages in 6 provinces. We found out 272 members dead, 26 missing, 99 injured. The members lost 2,477 small fishing boats, 15,534 fishing net (kra-chang), 2,448 crab fishing gears, 939 shrimp fishing gears, 3,277 fish fishing gears, 21,245 crab small fishing net (Sai-Poo),915 small fishing net, 8,271 squid fishing net and 292 fishing floating.
There are 232 villages more to survey. This is excluded Nam- Kem and Kao-lak villages, and PP Island which are still very difficult to find dead body and missing people. Briefly they estimated 4,900 people dead and 6,000 missing in only this area. In critical areas, the network had set teams and volunteers to work for immediate support and recover in the long term. These includes temporary camp and house construction, health care service, Mother and child care, hope and spirit moral support. In some families who had better conditions, the teams start boat repairing, engine repairing and providing new fishing gears for the members. For the next phase, medium term they need to build up their fisherfolk communities again. In some areas not that severe condition, the network provided immediate support, food, things need in daily life, boat repairing, providing new fishing gears and hope and spirit support. In the long term, they need to work on their local organization for community and coastal resource recovery.
The heart of this relief and community rehabilitation are to build up and support local fisherfolk groups to be key organizations for their long term recovery. The volunteers and working teams now need a lot of support from all groups. The immediate needs go to temporary house construction, boat repairing and buying fishing gears to support these fisherfolk to survive and recover their life again.
(Source: Office for The Coalition Network for Andaman Coastal Community Support, 8/3 Kok-chan Rd., Tub-tieng subdistrict, Muang district, Trang province 92000)
ESTIMATES OF COSTS OF RECONSTRUCTION / REPLACEMENT
House @ Rs. 1,00,000/, Vallam @ Rs. 50,000/, Kattumaran @ Rs. 50,000/, Nets @ Rs.10,000/.
Housing – 5269 units x 1,00,000 = Rs 52,69,00,000/
Vallams - 1411 units x 50,000 = Rs. 7,05,50,000/
Kattumaran 6016 units x 50,000 = Rs. 30,08,00,000/
Nets 9451sets x 10,000 = Rs 10,45,10,000/
Total Rs.100, 27,60,000/
(Source: Thomas Kocherry, World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP) India, National Fish worker