AUI (Action d'Urgence Internationale)

Actually, this French team (AUI) are an amazing story in themselves: 4 engineers in this area with no equipment (all the larger NGOs are concentrating in the larger population areas) apart from a couple of sledgehammers, a rope and a ladder made from wooden debris, who walk around looking for dangerous structures that need to be pulled down – by hand! So yes, we give them all the help we can.

More information about them (and about the training program I've been invited to!) here: www.aui-ong.org





Something else I heard a couple of days ago, that there's a small community about 4 or 5 villages south of where we are, and apparently they have had no NGO or government help since the tsunami, and the area is basically as it was the day after the 26th. I am going to try to head down there next week and check out how accurate this report is, and if so then try to get them some help from somewhere. Anyway, I'll wait and see…