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Tsunami |
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Wherever the Need US really started in the days immediately following the Asian tsunami of Dec. 26, 2004. David Purviance, who would later start WTN in the US, traveled to the coast of Tamil Nadu, India and helped with art therapy for traumatized children in the refugee camps. |
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David gave teddy bears to children who had lost parents in the tsunami and built playgrounds in three villages where the children had forgotten how to play. One playground was paid for by a sixth grade class in Los Angeles. The LA students wanted to help children who were victims of the tsunami. They recorded a CD of songs they sung as a class and sold copies to family, friends and neighbors. Thanks to their compassion, the children of Shanmuganagar could laugh and play again. |
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The Pregnant Women and Nursing Mothers Project was started by an Indian charity called BLESS and was funded by money David raised. Over the 18 months that it lasted, the project provided medical and psychological treatment, food supplements, baby clothes and hospital expenses for more than 700 women in 20 coastal villages that had been decimated by the tsunami. This pregnant woman lost one of her two daughters in the tsunami and was herself swept away by the tidal wave. The project helped ensure a healthy delivery for this mother. She is shown with her new baby. |
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