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Humanitarian help

In addition to its usual programs and routine activities, Volontariat and its staff have always been involved in relief activities, as soon as a natural disaster or a family tragedy happens: cyclonic storm, flood, fire accident, accidents or suicides.

The main recent natural disaster obviously was the Tsunami which hit many countries, the coast of South India and the archipelago of Andaman & Nicobar on 26.12.2004.

The disaster, on that day of 26.12.2004, was not the worst one that hit India, on account of the number of victims, but surely the most terrifying for the people, as many who suffered from the waves are still alive and will remember it for all their life. Also the damages were spread in hundreds of kilometers along the coastal areas of South India and all the Islands of the Andaman Archipelago. Today, all the post- Tsunami rehabilitation programmes, at Pondicherry, Karaikal, Nagapattinam, Andaman & Nicobar islands and other minor places, have been achieved and archived!

For all these calamities, individual or collective, the period of relief had to be quite short, so the relief done very quickly and with efficiency.Volontariat tries to do so, at its level of responsibility and means.