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January 04, 2005
Nallavadu
Here's a story from South India (that I first saw on Andy Carvin's article, The Tsunami as a Wake-Up Call to Bridging the Digital Divide .)
Nallavadu Total Families: 500, Population: 3630 [Male: 1950, Female: 1680] 200 catamarans and 150 houses are lost. One of our former volunteer by name Mr Vijayakumar is presently working in Singapore. He has seen the tsunami warning in Singapore. Immediately he telephoned to his house. That information spread out in the entire street. He also phoned to the knowledge Center at 1145am. Another person by name Mr Gopu also phoned to the Center from abroad. At the time tsunami has attacked nearly 200 fishermen who were in the sea. By God's grace all of them are safe. Immediately they spread the information through public address system and blew the siren. Because of this all are safe with their families in this village.Not one person died in that village even though it came under the force of the Tsunami in a serious way -- a third of the houses were destroyed -- because someone from the region, who was in Signapore at the time, heard of the Tsunami and called his home and the Village Resource Centre, which then broadcast the information over the public announcement system.
It's stories like this that make me angry, and sad, about all that was not done to warn people of the possible effects of the earthquake. Most governments in the region also hadn't put in place simple public awareness programs to teach people how to recognize a Tsunami -- basicaly, if seawater rapidly recedes, turn around and run instead of congregating around the newly exposed seabed to examine the curious phenomenon, as many unfortunate thousands did.
Posted by zeynep at January 4, 2005 11:26 PM
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