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Tuesday Feb. 22nd, 2005 Day 8

We received the disaster data of the Kanyakumari area from the mayor we visited yesterday.

The data is as follows.

No. of victims No. of families affected No. of villages affected		187,650 31,175 33
No. of deaths		830
Breakdown	Men Women Boys Girls	196 240 182 212
No. of injured people		732
Breakdown	Men Women Boys Girls	334 301 53 44
Orphan victims under 14 years of age		3
Breakdown	Boys Girls	0 3

We finished all our activities in India, and went home that night on the Silk Air departing at 22:30, and arrived in Japan coming from the Singapore route on the 24th.

We were able to conduct our activities smoothly with the kind help of the people in India, and we were able to send the kind offers of the people of Japan to the people of India. I am very happy and grateful for all of this and would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone from our hearts.

We were not able to distribute oil for the infant massage and conduct demonstrations due to the local situation, but we were able to visit more places than planned, and were able to directly meet with over 1800 children.

With the help of everyone, we believe we were able to be of some help to our big mission “For the smile of the children”.

We would also like to give our sincere condolences again to the people who have become victims of the Tsunami and have passed away.

Instead of grave posts, coconuts were planted at the coastline where the people who passed away were buried. Seedlings were growing from these graves, and I was moved to see the plantations conducted to wish for the rebirth and reunion of the people who passed away.

Monday Feb. 21st, 2005. Day 7.

We first visited the orphanage. 35 children live here. There were 5 staff members who served as parents, including staff that was brought up in this orphanage. There was one room for the boys, and one rooms for the girls, and each orphan had one luggage worth of personal belongings each. Here, we gave our chocolate brought from Japan, and our monetary donation.

Children at the orphanage.	Room for the girls	The Orphanage yard. There is even a cow	Orphanage staff The teacup and plate are used alternately so that the tea is cooled down to drinking temperature.
We then went to the Christian church. The building has collapse excepted for the altar. We visited the priest’s office that had survived the disaster and gave 200 children’s worth of candy and asked the priest to give the candy to the children who were not there as well.
The priest’s office. Candy including those for the children who were not there.	Children gathering around the priest’s office.	Remains of the school and church. Both were destroyed by the Tsunami.
We then visited the SOS office and donated 5,000 US dollars (About 500,000 yen). SOS is an organization working under a program made to help the children.
SOS program office	SOS program staff		We hit a salt field during our trip
We visited the Nagercoil city hall and handed 67,500 rupees (About 200,000 yen) to the mayor as a donation.
Nagercoil Collector’s office (City Hall)	Tsunami Emergency Headquarters in the Collector’s office.	Handing the 67,500 rupee donation to the mayor.	A line for petitioning people. A lot of city residents. There were also injured people in the line.
Finally, we visited an elementary school and donated 5,000 US dollars (about 500,000 yen). This place had the biggest disaster in the area. It was late in the afternoon, and all the children have already gone home. The school was quite and the principal was conducting paperwork. We visited without making an appointment, but he welcomed us happily. At the end, we gave one box of candy to the taxi driver who showed us around in such an enjoyable manner and asked him to give the candy to the children in his neighborhood.
Handing donation to the elementary school principal.	Peaceful sunset	In South India, there is a custom to put black dye on children’s faces as a charm to ward off evil. They make is so that the face is dirty to protect the children from evil. The little girl in the photo on the right also has the symbols on her forehead and cheek.	Mother and child

Sunday Feb. 20th, 2005. Day 6.

We took this day to inspect Kanyakumari. The hotel where we stayed was used by a lot of the local people and we could not communicate in English. We therefore ate breakfast at the biggest hotel. Near by and collected information.