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Wednesday, Feb 02, 2005

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Caritas' help for tsunami victims

By Our Staff Reporter

KOCHI, FEB. 1. Caritas India, the charity wing of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) will spend Rs. 25 crores in the State to rehabilitate the tsunami victims. The money will be utilised to build 1,000 houses, livelihood development activities and planting of mangroves to provide protection to areas prone to sea erosion.

Cardinal Telesphore Toppo, president of the CBCI, told presspersons on Tuesday that Caritas would join hands with the Government to implement the relief works.

A total of Rs. 60 crores will be raised for relief operations in the tsunami-hit States of the country.

The money would be raised from the people, the Cardinal said.

Caritas had already spent Rs. 12 crores as relief.

Houses for victims

In Kerala, Caritas will contribute Rs. 1.25 lakhs for a house and the State Government will provide another Rs. 50,000 for each of the 1,000 houses planned in Kollam, Alappuzha and Ernakulam districts.

The three-day national conference and assembly of development personnel of the Church in India will be held in Kochi.

The national assembly will be inaugurated at the Ashirbhavan in the city by Cardinal Toppo. The Minister for Fisheries, Dominic Presentation, would address the session.

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