8M Pounds Spend Benefits More Than 200,000 Older Tsunami Survivors, UK

This week, as families around the world remember the Asian tsunami of 2004, Help the Aged and HelpAge International (HAI) highlight the positive role older people have played in the reconstruction of their countries.More than 10,000 older people have received small business loans or benefited from credit schemes during the three-year programme of tsunami work funded by the Disaster Emergencies Committee (DEC). [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Aid / Disasters on December 23rd, 2007