Saturday, 1st January 2005

10:00am onwards Venue: Penang Diocesan Centre

Operations/collection centre:
- Volunteers from the Asiaworks group came to help in the day while some members from the SWYF came to help in the night.

Friday, 31st December 2004

10:00am onwards Venue: Penang Diocesan Centre

Operations/collection centre
- Individual volunteers and also USM students came to help.
10:00pm New Year’s Eve/Memorial mass for all Tsunami victims:
- Theme: “Into your hands we commend your people, O Lord”

A candle was lighted for every Malaysian victim as Rev. Fabian read out the names, a candle was also lighted for every country affected by the tsunami disaster.

Thursday, 30th December 2004

8am – 5pm Venue: Tj Bungah – Kampung Nelayan
- More cleaning – continued cleaning 2 houses from the day before and 4 more new houses
- Y.B. Dato Toh Kin Woon, Penang State Executive Councillor visits site and talks to the residents.

Venue: Penang Diocesan Centre
- POHD sets up an operations / collection centre on the ground floor – clothes, food, drinking water for tsunami victims.
- Volunteers start coming in to help sort the clothes donated according to gender, children and Indian clothing especially for Sri Lanka.


Wednesday, 29th December 2004

8am – 5pm Venue: Tg Bungah – Kampung Nelayan
- More cleaning – approximately 6 houses

Venue: Pusat Keuskupan Katolik
- Commence receiving cash donations & clothes

Tuesday, 28th December 2004

8am – 5pm Venue: Tj Bungah – Kampung Nelayan (Fisherman Village)
- Fantastic response! Approximately 30 volunteers comprising individuals, staff of POHD, CMO and some members of SWYF help to clean about 4 houses which were filled with sludge and caos!

Monday, 27th December 2004

Rev. Fabian made ground assessment at Tanjung Bungah area, Penang.
He identified a few homes/families that needs help cleaning. SOS text messages and phone calls were made to staff who were all still on Christmas leave as well as friends.


Sunday, 26th December 2004

Tsunamis following an undersea earthquake off Sumatera hits many countries in Asia and the fast escalating death toll and of horrific widespread destruction stuns the world.