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Reports from India and Sir Lanka
by Merritt Clifton
Editor, ANIMAL PEOPLE
30 December 2004
Swathi Buddhiraju of the Visakha SPCA in Visakhapatnam and Chinny Krishna of the Blue Cross of India in Chennai have called, Pradeep Kumar Nath of the Visakha SPCA and Debasis Chakrabati of the Compassionate Crusaders Trust in Kolkata have e-mailed, and so far as they can tell, all of the animal people in India are alive, well, and busy with the aftermath of the disaster.
The Compassionate Crusaders' Ashari educational center and rescue facility had some extra water, but no damage, and none of the others reported any damage.
Champa Fernando is the only Sri Lankan to check in so far. Champa lives high on a hill in Colombo. According to Champa, communications are totally disrupted, and my assistant Cathy Czapla and I have both observed that the Sri Lankan news media actually seem to have less information than some outside news media who have correspondents there with cell telephones, radios, etc. Their reporters may have a ton of info, but no way to get it relayed to headquarters.
Most of the Soi Dog Rescue people in Phuket, Thailand, are okay, including Margot Park and John and Gill Dalley. Gill suffered double amputation of her legs due to acute septicemia in October, and is still recovering.
The Soi Dog Rescue center is now sheltering numerous displaced humans as well as dogs.
Unfortunately, Phuket Animal Welfare Society cofounder and board member Leone Cosens was killed, apparently while trying to rescue others.
We have heard nothing as yet from the affected parts of Indonesia.
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