February 7, 2005 - Tsunami Relief: Sri Lanka (Pictures)

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Tsunami Relief: Sri Lanka
February 7, 2005

A tsunami disaster relief team from Compassion Services dropped into Sri Lanka from January 6-16, 2005 in an effort to minister medically to local needs, as well as assess the situation for future projects. Based on these assessments, there are now relief and redevelopment operations in continual rotation.

Below are selected pictures from this trip, everything from the line of people needing relief to a water-damaged family album among the detritus strewn about the ground; from rerouted traffic to a pastor pointing—he lost not only his home and church, but also his 22 year-old daughter.

In that part of Sri Lanka, property is separated by barbed wire. When the tsunami hit, people were trapped by those wires and then drowned in the waves. What appears to be a clothes line to Western eyes is actually the clothes ripped off of the helpless as they died.

Compassion Services is still accepting donations for their relief and redevelopment operations.

Special thanks to Andrew Tennyson for these pictures.

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