HPI
KAUAI, HAWAII, January 8, 2005: Patrick Harrigan (see his web site here) reports from Batticaloa: “About foreign volunteers, you know that skilled people are needed here badly. But without language ability in Tamil their use would be limited. I met a whole team of foreign doctors today at Ramakrishna College, now a refugee camp until school starts on January 20. Those several foreign doctors are sharing a single translator–they simply cannot understand what their patients are saying. Perhaps from your side you could get the word out that Tamil-speaking volunteers are badly needed as adjuncts to foreign teams of doctors and engineers, etc. The foreign teams are badly hampered by shortage of Tamil interpreters. English speaking Tamils from India would be useful here.”