"Children of Tsunami"

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Trust HELP is involved in a media project that is " tracking how ordinary people rebuild lives and livelihoods after the Asian tsunami disaster" called the "CHILDREN OF TSUNAMI - Rebuilding the Future"

TVE Asia Pacific’s Children of Tsunami regional communications initiative tries to capture how affected families are rebuilding and returning to normalcy. To personalise the mass of statistics, aid pledges and recovery plans, it looks at how all this affects eight children, their immediate families and communities. From February to December 2005, local TV journalists and filmmakers in the four hardest hit countries -- India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand -- have been making monthly visits to the chosen families. They try to find out what progress - if any - has been made, and record impressions of the children and family members. This material is packaged journalistically for broadcast, online and other media platforms.

By following the evolving stories of the eight children -- through monthly video reports and website -- audiences will be able to find out answers to these and other questions:

How are individuals coping with the losses and grief?
What are the unmet needs and unresolved issues in recovery?
Are the pledges of aid and debt relief really working?
What happens to the human rights of affected persons?
How and where can individuals and aid donor countries influence a more systematic and equitable approach to rebuilding?

For more information on the COT project please visit www.childrenoftsunami.info. The monthly video outputs can also be downloaded from the site.

Windows Media (TM) Movie - 3974 KB

Trust HELP recently screened the 8 first batch of monthly video reports from all four countries to an audience of Animators working in special schools set up by NGOs in the Tsunami affected areas in Kancheepuram and Chengalpet districts. The screening was well received.

Click image at left to see a short (~ 3 min) video of the screening programme.

Production of this upgraded website
has been possible with support by
TVE Asia Pacific
with funding from
Novib - Oxfam Netherlands

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