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That is how long the tsunami took to decimate 200 miles of coastline

It is over 2 weeks since the mega-tsunami. A Padang based boat is the first to reach Calang (about mid way between Banda Aceh and Meulaboh).

What they find is shocking. A thriving community of 15,000 has been very nearly erased. More than 6,000 are confirmed dead, over 4,000 are missing, 2,000 are living under tarps and and several thousand are camped in the hills terrified to return to ground zero.

The navy ships and chopper support are focusing on Meulaboh but the reality is that there are thousands of people in smaller and more remote communities North and South who have not had any assistance since the quake.

Our mission is to build a sea bridge to reach thousands that are homeless, hurt, hungry and traumatized.

We call this private volunteer initiative "The Electric Lamb Mission"

We can make a real difference but we must move fast. Thousands have no other hope.

Our plan is daring but simple. An 800 ton mother-ship carrying100+ medics and technicians, 200 tons of aid and equipment will motor from Padang and anchor close inshore. A fast ferry and aircraft will ferry the sick or injured out to hospitals in Padang and return with fresh supplies to replenish the mother-ship. A fleet of charter boats will distribute aid and medical support to communities up  to 20 nm away. Beach landing boats will take aid ashore and shuttle the sick and injured to the clinic on board.

Once other agencies arrive and can stabilize the coast, we will target Simeulue, Banyak, Nias islands and further south, focussing on stabilizing traumatized communities, disease control and helping to get basic infrastructure working.

We will work with NGOs, UN and others but plan to always have our own capacity to fill in where people are in need and forgotten.

~ Rick Cameron, Project Initiator

Image by Newsweek, depicts our initial plan. Tragically ground zero extends all the way to Banda Aceh.