INDIA: Habitat Aid and Reconstruction: Photographs from tsunami-hit areas in Tamil Nadu

The hardest job: Habitat volunteers at Vellankani, Nagapattinam help to dispose of the dead. The team is led by Sam Peter - senior HFH India staff member, accompanied by Mr. Irudhyaraj of HFH Madras. They organised church volunteers from Chennai and went to Vellankani to assist the civil and church authorities

Harbour wrecked: surveying the damage

Boat washed up on a building: streets littered with wreckage

Total devastation: fishing communities wiped out and rubble on the beaches

You can help the efforts of the Habitat for Humanity Disaster Response Office by a donation to the Asia Tsunami Response Fund.