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Commenting on the trip Alan said: "I'm off to India on October 9th 2009 for a 10 day period to assist with a rebuilding houses program in the fishing village of Chinnakuppam. This village was dealt a devastating blow by the 2004 Tsunami resulting in 140 families losing their homes and everything they owned. With the help of funding through Christian Missions Charitable Trust (CMCT) some families have slowly started to rebuild their lives. CMCT have already helped, through international assistance, rebuild 40 single room homes helping to restore some kind of normality to the families affected. However, like many fund raising appeals connected to disasters around the world, other events in our lives take priority and funding slows down. My aim is to help CMCT, who have reached out to the world communities again by asking for skilled and unskilled people to travel to this area and also raise money for the materials to build the remaining 100 houses. I will personally fund the cost of my flight as will the rest of the team. The foundations are already laid and it will cost just £3000 to provide the materials to complete each house that will restore a basic quality of life for the people who suffered the nightmare of the "Forgotten Tsunami".

While I'm there I will be working for 7 full days in temperatures between 36 and 42 degrees and will be part of a 18 strong team that will sleep on floor mattresses in a shared room for the duration of the trip. Meals will be provided by the local people.

If you would like to help with this project, you can do so by clicking the following link which will take you directly to my Just Giving Page."

http://www.justgiving.com/Forgotten-Tsunami/