Tsunami Relief in Andhra Pradesh, India
HEAL quickly responded to the disaster in Southeast Asia thanks to generous donors and Meera Khader, HEAL’s manager in Hyderabad.

Tharakarama Nagar Waterline
At the beginning of March 2005 The HEAL Foundation, with the partnership of local villagers, laid a waterline to the small community of Tharakarama

Nandamuri Primary School
On February 10, 2005, The HEAL Foundation participated in the inauguration of a small school in the slum of Nandamuri Nagar, approximately 20 kilometers north of Hyderabad, India. HEAL has been working in Nandamuri for six months, and our social workers identified a need for primary education in this small, dusty village. Transportation to government schools is too expensive for the parents here who work as underemployed day-laborers. HEAL helped pay construction costs and will support the teacher in the school with a monthly salary of 500 Rupees ($11). Basic reading and writing skills are taught to the children at this school. The community where they live is part of a network of slums that still lacks reliable drinking water and that lies under a constant cloud of smoke from the city garbage dump burning on the hill above their community.

 

HEAL Volunteers in India
HEAL Project Coordinators Jeffrey Sparenborg and Ty Turley visited India for three weeks in February 2005 to observe the social workers in Hyderabad and Bapatla.