This year's monsoon season has brought heavy flooding to India and displaced many millions of people. CCF-India office has been in constant contact with their project offices and has confirmed that...
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South Asia tsunami: Christian Children's Fund completes phase two of tsunami reconstruction Program
At the second year anniversary, Christian Children's Fund (CCF) has completed the second phase of a three-year program of recovery and reconstruction. CCF has collected $19,080,054.68 for tsunami...
India tsunami update Dec 2006
By Ellie Whinnery, CCF Communications Manager Hours after the tsunami crashed onto the shores of India's coastline, CCF-India started emergency relief and rehabilitation efforts to help stabilize the...
Tamil Nadu, India: CCF assisting tsunami Nagar settlement
In the Karaikal region of Tamil Nadu, India, heavy rains continue to affect many families along the coast devastated by last year's tsunami. The northeast monsoon, which began in late October, has...
Tamil Nadu, India: Severe flooding affects tsunami survivors
Most of Pondicherry and Tamil Nadu, the region of mainland India hit hard by the tsunami, is now under the grip of severe floods. More than 250 people have been killed and as many as one million more...
Education, schools and young minds: India
By Kirsten Hongisto, communications-manager for Christian Children's Fund-Asia Ensuring that children returned to school became one of the major goals of Christian Children's Fund following the...
The women boat builders of Kanyakumari, India
By Kirsten Hongisto, communication manager-Asia for Christian Children's Fund At the southernmost tip of India, where the waters of the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal become one,...
First the tsunami, then fire in the camp: India
Caroline Jenkins, communications manager for CCF-Australia, spent three months in Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia as part of CCF's effort to tell the story of tsunami survivors. "First the Tsunami,...
Second India update: CCF reports loss of children in monsoon rains that paralyzed Western India
Weeks of monsoon rains in western India triggered flooding and landslides that ravaged more than 600 villages in the state of Maharashtra. Water was reported at levels of 10 feet in some areas...
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South Asian tsunami travel report - India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka
India There was an unmistakable air of excitement in the village of Nalla Vadu as the official ceremony of handing over newly repaired boats got under way just before dusk. It started with a special...
Life in a tin box: Temporary housing in India
Toni Radler, director of communications for Christian Children's Fund U.S.A., was part of CCF's original tsunami-response team. She returned to the region in July 2005 for a three-week update tour...
Flood and landslide in Maharastra (Project #1188) situation report and update by CCF-India team 04 Aug 2005
Situation in the affected areas: Heavy monsoon rains have pounded 600 villages of the entire Raigarh district in Maharashtra State, during July 24-31, unleashing large-scale destruction and bringing...
The first catch: Fishing in India
Toni Radler, director of communications for Christian Children's Fund U.S.A., was part of CCF's original tsunami-response team. She returned to the region in July 2005 for a three-week update tour...
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South Asia: Hardship in tsunami's wake
Governments and survivors are at odds over housing problem BY TONI RADLER For thousands of tsunami survivors, life remains filled with extreme daily hardships. One problem we can't help them with is...
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South Asia: Six months after the tsunami
Six months after intensive emergency response and recovery efforts for tsunami-affected children and families in Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia, Christian Children's Fund (CCF) is getting people back...
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Christian Children's Fund - Tsunami News Update
Healing People-Healing Mother Earth In the process of healing lives following the tsunami, Christian Children's Fund (CCF) is also helping heal Mother Earth. CCF has initiated livelihood programs...
CCF emergency response: Tsunami relief efforts in India
CCF is working in four hard-hit areas of India: Chennai, Pondicherry, Nagapattinam, Cuddalore. Mike Wessels, CCF's Senior Child Protection Specialist, has arrived from the United States to train...
India: Reclaiming what mother nature took away
Restoring The Means To Make A Living Is One Of The Big Tasks In Tsunami Recovery When the tsunami hit some inland villages in the Nagappattinam area of India, it didn't destroy homes or take lives as...
India earthquake: Final report by the CCF field team - Jul 2001
Within a week of the devastating earthquake that hit the western part of Gujarat in January, CCF teams had set up Child Friendly Spaces in Bhachu to provide a safe place for children while adults...
India earthquake program update -- Starting over
In earthquake shattered India, people are struggling with the painful process of starting over. These families in the State of Gujarat are proud and independent; however, now they need so much...