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What goes around comes around..... Jane and I live in Padang and we were far enough away from the mega quake and tsunamis on Dec 26th to escape any direct damage. What followed turned our lives upsided down and we now see the world and our role in it from a totally different vantage point. Experiencing the devastation in Aceh and Nias and the bravery of the victims first hand has been a transformative experience. It is as though everything we have learned, all the skills we have cultivated, all our life experience, our friends, associates and family, suddenly came together to face the enormous task of confronting the emergency. It is far from over. Reconstruction will take decades. Our world has been changed forever. What matters now is to make a difference for hundreds of thousands of victims. What we need are tools that can do that on a meaningfull scale. In the days after the tsunami, we were inundated by requests for information and help. People found our Aceh appeal website and called or mailed in the hope that we could help find loved ones or friends missing in the aftermath.The UK Embassy called and asked us to help find Gareth Smith and his family: last seen or heard of in Sipura Island 100 miles west of Padang. We were able to reassure the Ambassador that the Mentawai Islands had not been seriously damaged and that no-one was reporting any loss of life in the area. Many phone calls later and the chance visit of our of our island staff led us to Gareth & family safe and sound in a Padang hotel. The Embassy were very happy that we found their only lost citizen in the region and later that day the Defence Attache called and put me in touch with Rolls Royce head office in Jakarta. Funding materialized, aid flooded in, we found our aid ship and the rest of our story can be found at www.island-aid.org Gareth returned to UK but he did not forget us. He has mobilized his non-profit group to help support our work and we have expanded our area of concern to the Mentawai Islands where his family liveDuring the initial phase of our emergency aid deliveries to Aceh & Nias, Island Aid (operating as Electric Lamb Mission) was sponsored by many aid organizations and companies including: Aus Aid, Unilever, North West Medical Teams, Missionary Air Fellowship & Canadian Relief Foundation. Special thanks to major financial supporters: Now that the emergency phase is over we are focused on fund raising for long term reconstruction and rehabilitation of isolated communities along this devastated coastline. Our latest project is to share news and information about the human immune system. We started working on this the week before the Swine Flu crisis! www.immune-intelligence.comIma High Yellow
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