Tsunami Grants

Phase I: Relief

From December 30 to January 7, GFC dispersed $37,500 to ten current and past grantee partners who were engaged in immediate relief activities, including providing food, clothing, and medicine to people whose communities were severely affected by the tsunami. The recipient organizations and the uses of Phase I funding are:

Association for Community Development Services
$5,000

Kanchipuram District, India
To help pay for food, clothing, blankets, temporary shelter, medicine, and health camps for over two thousand evacuees from the area of Mamallapuram.

Child Relief and You
$5,000

based in Mumbai, India
To support immediate relief efforts of the Chennai Relief Committee network, made up of local NGOs and international agencies serving approximately 4,300 families living in Tamil Nadu’s coastal communities.

Dasra
$2,500

based in Mumbai, India
To assist with facilitation and coordination of relief efforts by GFC’s grantees based in Tamil Nadu, specifically Society for Education and Action located in Mamallapuram, a devastated coastal community north of Chennai.

Halley Movement
$2,500

Batimarais, Mauritius
To provide food and clothing to 150 fisher families living on Rodrigues Island and to replace educational materials that were lost or damaged in the floods caused by the tsunami.

Jeeva Jyothi
$2,500

Chennai, India
To provide safe drinking water, medicine, cooking utensils, clothing, and educational materials to two remote island slums in the Pulicot area.

Protecting Environment and Children Everywhere
$5,000

Colombo, Sri Lanka
To buy food, medicine, clothing, bedding, and school supplies for affected children and families living in the coastal slums of Colombo.

Rural Institute for Development Education
$2,500

Kanchipuram District, India
To help pay for the distribution of clothing, blankets, cooked food, and medicine to tsunami victims who were brought to a government refugee camp in the town of Kanchipuram.

Sanghamitra Service Society
$5,000

Vijayawada, India
To provide food and clothing to approximately four hundred children, senior citizens, single women, disabled people, and babies living in six villages in the tsunami-affected Machilipatnam area.

Shilpa Children’s Trust
$2,500

Colombo, Sri Lanka
To purchase medical supplies for use by SCT-affiliated volunteer doctors and to purchase shoes and school uniforms to allow children to resume school.

Society for Education and Action
$5,000

Mamallapuram, India
To help pay for food, clothing, bedding, and medicine for over ten thousand people living in thirteen villages that were severely affected by the tsunami.

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Phase II grants
Phase III grants