- Organic Desalination
- We have facilitated the desalinating of 60 acres of agricultural land in Kandakaddu in Cuddalore District. This land was rendered useless by the flooding of tsunami salt water. The desalination process was a completely organic process.
- School Renovation and Village Rebuilding
- The Family India, with the help of several donor agencies was able to provide 59 new houses to the residents of a tsunami-affected village in Tamil Nadu called Ponanthittu. Each of these houses has a living room, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, and staircase leading up to the terrace.
- Providing Tools to Boat Workers
- Not only did the tsunami ravage the lives of the fishermen, it also hit the lives of those who earn a living by providing services to the fishing industry. The Family India has been helping these allied workers by making it possible for them to be self-reliant once again.
- More on Tsunami Relief Work
- The Family International visited camps which were scattered all over the two main islands affected. Mountain refuges, remote villages, hospitals, and Buddhist temples were all turned into relief centers and centers for missing persons.
- Making Young Lives Better
- We have grown very close to a group of 40 children from the K-4 orphanage, who range in age from 9 to 16. We have brought them all to our home for “family time” each weekend for the past year, and our son Peter teaches weekly English classes at the orphanage.
- “Deaf Way” Project Update
- Helen Keller Awards: In an effort to encourage children from all the schools for the deaf in Delhi to do better academically, we instituted the Helen Keller Student Award. This annual award is the first of its kind and a significant morale booster to the deserving.
- My First Shoes
- Several months ago, Family members in Japan received a donation of 18,000 new pairs of shoes, to be sent as humanitarian aid to the Third World.
- Naliya After The Quake—Our second relief mission
- Whenever a natural disaster strikes, it seems the most vulnerable and worst affected are the children. Their physical wounds heal long before the emotional scars. The children who were orphaned, injured, traumatized, and left homeless by the Gujarat earthquake were no exception.
- Naliya After The Quake—Our first relief mission
- On January 26, a massive earthquake rocked India and caused staggering devastation in parts of Gujarat state in western India. Tens of thousands of people lost their lives, and hundreds of thousands more were left homeless.
- Reaching Out To Earthquake Victims In Gujarat
- On January 26th, India’s Republic Day, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake shook Gujarat state in western India. In New Delhi, 1,000 km (625 mi) to the northeast, tremors from the quake shook our house for 30 seconds.
