An orphanage called Hope: Indian couple rebuilds lives after losing own children to tsunami

FILE PHOTO: Karibeeran Paramesvaran and his wife Choodamani, who lost three children in the 2004 tsunami, pose outside their house that they have turned into a care home for orphaned children in Nagapattinam district in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, India, December 4, 2019. REUTERS/P. Ravikumar

NAGAPATTINAM, India (Reuters) - Karibeeran Parameshvaran and his wife Choodamani contemplated suicide after losing three children to giant waves triggered by a 9.1-magnitude quake fifteen years ago.

Days after their son and two daughters aged 5, 9 and 12 died, the grief-stricken couple walked from their southern Indian town to some nearby villages.