Joy children's home has light, airy dormitories for the children; one for the boys and one for the girls.  The dining room is large and spacious and the children have benches and tables to sit at whilst eating or doing their homework.  There is a large toilet block to the left of the building and

When the true enormity of the disaster became apparent, it was decided that Dave and two locals would buy 150 sets of clothes, blankets and bed mats, and drive 300km south to visit remote coastal villages near Nagalpattinam that would be much less able to help themselves than the nearby coastal areas of