During this whole ordeal, we have not been alone,somebody always was at our side and everybody was taken to safety. For the next two days we were taken in by a family of the village there.We'd been given food and clothes, since we were not allowed to return to our hotel close to the beach. My body was full of bruises and my husband had open wounds and was taken to a doctor.Thank God, nobody got sereously hurt.

A few days later,our host, Mr. Dabarera left with two small trucks loaded with food,aquired from donations from vacationers and locals to head south to help the people there.He was accompanied by my husband and other german and swiss vacationers. In Waikkala itself (where we were) the destruction was not as horrible as elsewhere since the beach there was not densely built on.Even so, the deathtoll was 10 people in this small community.

The tsunami hit the whole coastline of Sri Lanka and there will be help needed for a long time to conce.

Where ? in Dankotuwa Sri Lanka, about 10 km north of Negombo.
What ? Planed are houses for 16-20 children and 2 caretaker each..
In every house will be a big living room,2 bathrooms and toiletts.
To built this project, we need ca. 100.000 Euro.
We also plan several follow up projects which will be designed to be self supportive to the childrens home. We want to help arrange adoptions of the children by local families.
In time we plan on adding a daycare center, to give single parents the possibility of making a job, while their children are taking care of.