"I know how to fish...build me a boat."

"I know how to fish...build me a boat."
May 2005 on Ko Phi Phi Don, Thailand

The age-old adage charges us to teach people how to fish, instead of providing them with food. The tsunami changed many things, including the projection of the adage�s interpretation onto coastal dwellers around the Andaman.

For villages dependent upon the locals who fish the waters of the Andaman Sea, being without fishing boats makes self-sufficiency impossible. Short-term foreign aid is a must. These villagers already know how to fish and provide for their own needs. They simply need their infrastructure re-established�in the form of assistance repairing damaged boats or building new boats.

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* Half of the profit will be donated to assist with ongoing tsunami relief efforts in Thailand.

The profit will be determined by taking the overall proceeds from the sales and subtracting the expenses for film processing and framing the images for the shows. The funds will be provided to specific individuals I met on my trip (not organizations) who are still in the Thailand area helping with recovery projects. The individuals receiving the funds are charged with finding locals in need of the funds and dispensing them accordingly for relief projects. [For example, contributions I personally provided to one of these individuals went to paying for school tuition for the daughter of one of the shopkeepers whose store was destroyed in the tsunami. Other such private donations have bought engines for fishing boats, books to replace those lost in the tsunami, etc. My personal experience while in Thailand was the funds being doled out by volunteers who had direct exposure to individuals, in the communities hardest hit by the tsumani, were those funds being best allocated. The volunteers would accompany the tsunami survivor to pay the school fees to the school directly or to buy the engine directly instead of money being handed out.]