My father is in the construction trade and he asked me last night who he
might ask if his services would be useful in rebuilding things in
tsunami devastated areas, I don't really have those kinds of contacts
but I imagine someone on this list might. does anyone know who he would
contact to offer to go over there and help rebuild?
John Guttridge
I think you will find that the countries don't need all that much
"outside" help when it comes to reconstruction. They have much manpower,
even taking into account the massive loss of life, and then paying these
people to build is a good way of getting money to the local economies.
A lot of these people where fishermen, and have subsequently lost their
boats hence are not capable of earning an income "the old way".
Something that may be worth passing onto your father though is that
these people will need tools. When East Timor was destroyed by Indonesia
in 1998/1999/2000, if memory serves me correctly, Australia sent up some
tradesmen to teach the locals how to "swing a hammer" but also ran huge
"tool drives" where people, back in Australia, where encouraged to clean
out the old back shed and send their rusting tools to local collection
points. The tools where then cleaned up and sent to East Timor so that
the locals had something to work with. I personally think this is a
better way of doing things rather than sending a mob of Western
construction people there to actually do the rebuilding.
Regards,
Andrew Lowe
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