Tsunami
Journey
by Len Walker
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All proceeds from the sale of the
book will go directly to assisting the victims of the tsunami
to rebuild their lives in Sri Lanka
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Email: Lenisinsrilanka@yahoo.ca
Mail: P.O. Box 400
Qualicum Beach, British Columbia
V9K 1S9 Canada
This is the journal of a Vancouver
Island man’s seventy day involvement
in the tsunami recovery effort. He traveled alone
to the worst hit east coastal areas of the island of Sri
Lanka (Ceylon)
off the coast of the Indian continent, in Tamil Tiger
territory.
It changed his life.
Foreword by Dr.
David Heaton
Len Walker
flew into Sri Lanka as the right
man in the right place at the right
time! The time was four
weeks after the 2004 Boxing Day
Tsunami. The place was the
coastal town of Kalmunai where
lives and structures present when
the wave struck were horrible crushed....Read more...
Table
of Contents
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Excerpts
Hotels and Industry have
already started reconstructing on the coast in
Sri Lanka; governments have passed laws preventing
families from rebuilding their oceanfront homes. Hundreds
of thousands of people are being forcibly relocated
inland. The coast is not being rebuilt as
it was—dotted with fishing villages and beaches
strewn with handmade nets. Instead, the Sri
Lankan government, corporations and foreign donors
are teaming up to rebuild it as they would like
it to be: the beaches as playgrounds for
tourists, the oceans as watery mines for corporate
fishing fleets, both serviced by privatized airports
and highways built on borrowed money. Read more...
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