The epic devastation due to this Tsunami tragedy remain etched in the world’s collective consciousness and has plunged the whole region in shock and grief. It is well said that what man builds brick by brick over long years of perseverance, the nature can destroy in a single guffaw and nature is not blind and unintelligent but acts as an instrument of God. It gives us enough signals to be good and do good and be kind to the fellow citizens around us.

While the dead cannot be brought back, the Governments and the civil society must do everything in their power to heal wounds, provide relief and rehabilitation on a huge scale, and help reconstruct the lives, livelihood, and assets of the mostly poor people who, on account of the vulnerability of their lives, were the tsunami's principal victims. Apart from mourning the death of the thousands of people who have fallen victim to nature's fury we have to express our solidarity with the hundreds of thousands of people who have lost their relatives or been rendered homeless and destitute.

Ananda Marga Pracharaka Samgha through its branch, Ananda Marga Universal relief Team (AMURT) is rendering its services to the suffering and affected by distributing food, clothes and medical assistance and spiritual counselling for the well being of one and all. Ananda Marga is concentrating all its energies in two areas, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Cuddalore District of Tamil Nadu. With over 16 schools run by Ananda Marga in the various Islands of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Ananda Marga have a full understanding and dedication about the Islands and its requirements. The Team is distributing essential materials of different types to the relief camps at Badmas Pahad, Lal Pahad, Bachra Pahad, Guptapara, Wandoor from the very next day of Tsunami Tragedy. The Team has also organized a medical relief team consisting of 7 medical staff provided by DHS and distributed medicines in Tsunami affected people of Guptapara, Wandoor and Badmas Pahad. The Team has also disposed of dead bodies of the dead bodies of animals and human beings and helped the Govt. to remove and bury the carcasses in Hut Bay.

The administration of the Islands also has given Ananda Marga the duty of distribution of medicines, sanitation and counselling amidst the victims of the tragedy. Ananda Marga monks burnt a large number of uncared for human bodies in the Hut Bay area of the Islands. Like in Latur earthquake in Maharashra and cyclone in Andhra Pradesh where Ananda Marga has constructed housing colonies with public support, in Andaman Islands also, it desires to take up housing construction programme soon. People belonging to all sections of society are requested to respond to the challenge and contribute generously in various ways. Ananda Marga requests all to donate liberally to the Tsunami Relief Account by cash or by cheque/D.D. drawn in favour of Ananda Marga Pracharaka Samgha Tsunami Relief Account payable at Kolkata.