Tsunami Grants

Phase II: Rehabilitation

From January 7 to March 30, GFC awarded $85,000 to existing grantees whose communities were directly affected by the tsunami and who are helping to restore livelihoods, replace school supplies, and provide counseling and other productive activities for traumatized children and youth. The recipient organizations and the uses of Phase II funding to date are:

Association for Community Development Services
$25,000

Kanchipuram District, India
To support recreation and child-care centers, nutritional supplements, training in psychosocial care for community-based workers, supplemental teachers, and seed money for women’s enterprise cooperatives; beneficiaries are from affected villages around Mamallapuram.

Dasra
$10,000

Based in Mumbai, India
To leverage additional support for GFC’s grantee partners located in southern India who are engaged in emergency reconstruction activities and to advise GFC on relief efforts, strategies, and next steps; Dasra will also assist GFC in contributing to a paper about different funding approaches to emergency relief, to be produced by Grantmakers Without Borders.

Sanghamitra Service Society
$25,000

Vijayawada, India
To fund the repair and replacement of fishing nets and boats belonging to 154 fishermen and to pay for bulk purchases of dry fish to help 153 women restore their pre-tsunami livelihoods; beneficiaries are from seven villages in Machilipatnam and Nagayalanka areas.

Society for Education and Action
$25,000

Mamallapuram, India
To purchase one hundred kilograms of fishing nets to be distributed in thirteen villages and to repair approximately sixty-five damaged boat engines.

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Phase I grants
Phase III grants