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Save The Family Life Starter Kit Unveiled

Tamil Nadu, India (ots/PRNewswire)

- Three tsunami-afflicted families begin anew thanks to initiative
to rebuild local lives and livelihoods
Today, three Indian families whose homes and livelihoods were
wiped out by the tsunami were given a new future, thanks to an
innovative program called Save The Family. The initiative, which is
jointly sponsored by the IMGE Emergency Relief Fund and HOPE
worldwide, ltd., consists of Life Packages that will provide
tsunami-afflicted families the means to quickly rebuild their lives
and their livelihoods.
Save The Family will supply a complete Life Package with all of
the necessary elements to live and work, including a Life Starter Kit
comprised of a thatched roof hut, cooking utensils, stove, food and
supplies (for two months), furniture, bedding, children's books,
school uniforms, clothes; and a Business Starter Kit, including a
boat, engine, fishing net and other work-related equipment. Each Life
Package costs just $5,500 (USD) and will be paid for using donations
to the IMGE Emergency Relief Fund. "I've never seen such joy as when
the first three families were shown their new homes," said Andrew J.
Krieger, a program founder. "We have two more being built, and will
keep going until we've exhausted our donations or given every
afflicted family a home and a means to earn a living."
The announcement was made jointly by program partners Mark
Templer, Country Director, HOPE worldwide, ltd. (HWW), and Andrew J.
Krieger, CEO, IMGE Emergency Relief Fund (IMGEERF). HWW is a charity
operating in 75 nations and serving more than one million needy
people every year. IMGEERF is an India-focused, tsunami-relief
organization devoted to providing sustainable, grassroots aid, with a
long-term commitment to rebuilding local communities.
According to Mark Templer, "IMGEERF is taking concrete steps to do
something practical and powerful. I'm excited about working with them
because they, like us, want to make a long-term difference in the
lives of people here by helping families rebuild their futures."
Templer added that it was significant the Life Packages were finished
on the eve of Pongal, the harvest festival, "because it signifies a
return to the harvest of the sea, which has sustained these people
for literally thousands of years."
Krieger added, "The beauty of our Life Packages is that they
enable the afflicted to restart their lives -- fast. The fishermen
can again provide food and shelter for their wives and children, and
the village economies -- which rely heavily on fishing -- can start
to sustain the people again. We've heard repeatedly from the
villagers themselves that they don't want handouts, they just want to
earn their living and live in a proper home and with their families
-- to cook their own food, pray in privacy, hold their children
quietly at night -- and you can't do these things in a temporary
refugee shelter. We are thankful to be working with HOPE worldwide
because their decades of experience in India will get the job done
quickly, and expertly."
Please Direct Contributions To:
    IMGE Emergency Relief Fund/Save The Family
    One Bridge Plaza, Suite 690
    Fort Lee, N.J. 07024
    United States
    All Contributions are Tax-Deductible
    Visit IMGE Emergency Relief Fund at: http://www.imgeemergency.com
    Visit HOPE worldwide at: http://www.hopeww.org
    Web site: http://www.imgeemergency.com
              http://www.hopeww.org

Contact:

Kimberly Bernhardt for IMGE Emergency Relief Fund, +1-212-843-8056,
cell, +1-917-903-5280, or kbernhardt@rubenstein.com; or Avantika
Bhargava of IMGE Emergency Relief Fund, +1-201-242-0181, cell
+1-201-724-8278, or avantika@imgb.com