The addicted and suffering are finding new hope through faith- based programs. Vulnerable human life is better protected.

“Once the reconstruction is over,” says Kamaraj, “Except for the lives lost, most of those affected will be able to replace everything – and replace everything for the better.”

With 167,000 dead or missing along an 800 kilometer strip of coastline that had been swept clean of buildings and all signs of life, the task of rebuilding seemed, and was, overwhelming.