Dear Gerda,

Let me share with you some of our experiences in the villages badly
hit by Tsunami waves on the west coast of India.

The situation in these villages is very bad and the atmosphere is very
gloomy. As we saw in the east coast, many people are still under shock and
fear. It is so visible on their faces. In these fishermen villages, people
lived hardly ten or twelve metres away from the sea in huts and semi-permanent houses. But after Tsunami these areas are mostly plane. In six villages, where altogether eight hundred people were killed, many died because the waves swept them and put them in a canal which is about two hundred meters away from the sea coast. (weiterlesen)