Your donations are making a difference

I WISH to express my profound thanks to readers for their extraordinary generosity to GOAL’s south-east Asia appeal.

On a recent visit to the affected regions with Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern, I saw the destruction caused by the tsunami. Entire villages have been wiped out and traumatised children will endure nightmares for years to come. These essential donations are now helping our aid workers (GOALies) to rebuild communities in Southern India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Andaman Islands.

The dedicated teams of nurses, doctors, accountants, logisticians and engineers began by clearing the debris and undertook the harrowing task of retrieving bodies from the beaches.