ng 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 workers Forum(NFF))
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), in a separate statement, said around 2,600 fishing boats had been destroyed along the Somali coast.
FAO, which was preparing to assist in getting the damaged fishing vessels repaired, said it would support the provision of fishing inputs. It would also provide short-term financial aid and training in improved fishing techniques and boat building to about 2,000 fishermen.
9 Jan: The death toll in India is now more than 10,000 with the number of missing at 5,689, most of them from fishing communities and most presumed dead. (Scotland on Sunday) http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=25442005
9 Jan: Sri Lankans Recall Trauma, Loss as the Instinct to Rebuild Stirs. In this tight-knit neighborhood of fishermen, known as Lovigahawtya, the 48 families suffered 68 deaths. (Los Angeles Times) http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-town9jan09,1,798292.story?coll=la-headlines-world&ctrack=1&cset=true
2 Jan: ...Gamel Silua described how his 72-year-old father, one of the country's [Sri Lanka's] famous stilt fishermen who perch on stakes out at sea and fish with rod and line, was swept away by the tsunami. “One moment he was there. The next he was gone,” he said. “We have never found his body.” (London Times) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,18690-1422835,00.html
Part of MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY (MPH) UK coalition of 100 leading NGOs, campaigns, trade unions and faith groups
Trade and the Tsunami
Background Trade Justice Movement Briefing for MPH
The Asian tsunami has caused massive damage to many Asian countries, already suffering from high levels of poverty and vulnerability. It is vitally important that the high profile relief efforts are accompanied by measures to address the long-term problems created by the Tsunami, or which now threaten to increase the vulnerability of the poorest groups within affected countries.
Tsunami affected countries, as well as other poor countries, will need a fairer deal on trade if they are to recover fr