Rebuilding lives, restarting communities

Labour of love: A member of the Tzu Chi medical volunteer team tending to a victim of the tsunami in Hambantota, Sri Lanka.

Two organisations that stepped up to the plate explain how they helped put lives back on track.

AS humanitarian relief forms the core of World Vision’s work, the global organisation was among the many NGOs that launched fund-raising campaigns immediately in the wake of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.