A month after the tsunami hit South Asia, the extent of the damage is staggering. According to Reuters, as of January 25^th, 2005 over 234,000 people have died, many are missing and hundreds of thousands are homeless (Table 1). Those who survived had to start from scratch, with entire towns wiped out, roads and train tracks washed out, sewer systems rendered useless, and no electricity, clean water or adequate food. Due to the magnitude of the destruction, it has been nearly impossible to implement proper sanitization projects and waves of disease are affecting hundreds of thousands more. Communities have had their social and economic infrastructures torn down leaving entire populations in a sense of disarray and despair. In addition to the immediate physical trauma, victims suffer a psychological ordeal that is both crippling and long lasting.