Loving What We Have Left: Women's Health-Focused Tsunami Relief Effort

COHI led a rapid response team of 11 women's health professionals from the US and Europe into Sri Lanka. The team chose to live and work in one of the most devastated regions affected not only by the 2003 Tsunami but also by over 25 years of armed conflict. $80,000USD was raised through cash donations from individuals and a $23,000USD grant from World Vision/Sri Lanka. Together they conducted the first women's health needs assessment and provided the only women's health services to a number of refugee camps.

A documentary film-maker, Kloie Picot, travelled to Sri Lanka to film COHI's work. View the video here, as well as several of the compelling photos taken by Ms. Picot. To learn more about her work, visit her website.