Can we continue to reach out and help ... [The] Adrift and Aggrieved

"If someone would clean the wells and provide tents, Mr. Selvam said, he
could do the hard part - persuade even grief-stricken neighbors like
Sellamanikkan Manokaran, 43, who lost four of his five children and had
vowed never to return, to come back.

But even Mr. Selvam's simple wishes seemed unlikely to be fulfilled. More
than a month after the tsunami struck, not an ounce of debris had been
cleared from here except by thieves. The road to the village, washed out by
the tsunami, had not been repaired."

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SOURCE: March 6, 2005 | By Amy Waldman, New York Times -- TRAGEDY'S WAKE:
FACING THE FUTURE ALONE |
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/06/international/asia/06lanka.html?th