Tsunami Recovery – Gizo, Solomon Islands

On April 2, 2007 there was an earthquake measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale in the Pacific. The tsunami that followed caused enormous devastation to the people of the Solomon Islands. Waves traveled 200 metres inland claiming 52 lives and leaving almost 10,000 people, half of them children, homeless.

As our overseas Grant Manager, Oxfam has distributed some of the money you kindly donated, to helping the people of Gizo by setting up 132 camps for those left homeless, finding clean water sources, building toilets and holding sanitation classes for people displaced by the disaster. This work has saved countless lives and prevented the spread of disease.




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