Its been almost five years since a tsunami pounded Southeast Asia. What has happened since the big relief moneys dried up? Who is left to rebuild these areas in a positive and sustainable way. “Equipping stricken villagers with computers, English classes, business and tour guide skills empower them with abilities that could be put to other uses when tourism fluctuates or flounders,” Bodhi Garrett, of Andaman Discoveries explains. “The training programmes also imbued them with a greater sense of cultural pride, which had ebbed to an all-time low after the disaster.”



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Written by EcoVerb
813 days ago
So true so true....



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