February 9, 2005: Headlines: COS - India: Tsunami: Tsunami Assistance Project: RPCV create created TAP, the Tsunami Assistance Project to construct a community center for the Akkaraipetta School community in Nagappattinam, India

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RPCVs create TAP, the Tsunami Assistance Project, to construct a community center for the Akkaraipetta School community in Nagappattinam, India

RPCVs create TAP, the Tsunami Assistance Project, to construct a community center for the Akkaraipetta School community in Nagappattinam, India

RPCVs create TAP, the Tsunami Assistance Project, to construct a community center for the Akkaraipetta School community in Nagappattinam, India

RPCV create created TAP, the Tsunami Assistance Project

In the aftermath of December's earthquake and tsunami in Southeast Asia, RPCVs Kevin Griffith (Uzbekistan 02-04), Dan Behn (Uzbekistan 02-04), Jonathan Romm (Vanuatu 02-04), Kevin Fleming (Lesthoto 02-04) and a team of RPCV Fellows at the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University created TAP, the Tsunami Assistance Project. TAP aims to support India with the building of new homes and to link donors with the reconstruction process through a web site, www.tapindia.org. The site will be finalized on Friday, February 11.

TAP will construct 200 houses and a community center for the Akkaraipetta School community in Nagappattinam, India. As a privately funded project, TAP seeks donations to support his construction project. Donations are made through NPCA. For more information, please email Kevin Fleming at kwf@andrew.cmu.edu.

Thank you for your support.

Regards,

Kevin M. Griffith (Nagappattinam, India)


TAP will complete its assessment and choose a region to work on Friday, February 4. In continuing with an assessment of the tsunami affected areas and the work being undertaken by the scores of volunteers and NGOs, TAP volunteered for one day with AID India's Medical Team.

Comprised mostly of American doctors of Indian origin and Tamil speaking Indian ex-patriots living in the United States, the AID India Medical Team has been working in the lesser tsunami affected regions for the past month. AID India also held a presence in the area before the tsunami struck. In marked NGO fashion, two SUVs carried the team to Devani, along with donated medical supplies. With impressive precision, the team formed an assembly line, passed boxes from the vehicles to the Hindu temple, where the traveling clinic was set up, and outlined a process for registration, consultation, and prescription. The clinic went on for six hours, seeing nearly two hundred villagers. No one suffered from tsunami related illnesses.








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