Reconstruction aid after the tsunami

Just a few weeks after the devastating tsunami, I.S.A.R. Germany launches another aid mission for the victims of the tsunami. A delegation from our organisation travelled to the Thai village of Ban Bangsak in January 2005. The village was almost completely destroyed by the tsunami at the end of 2004.

Help with reconstruction

"It was clear to us from our experience shortly after the natural disaster that we had to continue to support the people in the region," says I.S.A.R. President Dr Daniela Lesmeister. An appeal for donations in Germany met with a great response. This has now made it possible to provide reconstruction aid in Thailand. Contact with the fishing village of Ban Bangsak was established via an interpreter who had accompanied I.S.A.R.. He was the one who started to make the village habitable again. The financial help from Germany, especially from donors from Duisburg and Kevelaer, was an important building block in this endeavour.

I.S.A.R. Germany also provided the locals with qualified staff to help them plan and realise the reconstruction. The village was reopened in April 2005. Since then, "Duisburger Strasse" and "Kevelaerer Strasse" have existed on Phuket.