Aid Still RequiredIts been 12 years since the 2004 Tsunami that took 260,000 lives, affected 12 countries and over 5 million people. That day, when Hunter and I heard the news, realized that friends of ours were on the ground in Phuket, Thailand, and might not be alive, we made the fateful decision which set us on the path of eventually creating Aid Still Required. Along the way, we’ve met remarkable people, including nurse and filmmaker Alison Thompson of The Third Wave Volunteers. Alison went to Sri Lanka for two weeks to offer aid and stayed for more than a year.…
Aid Still Required Collaborator Alison Thompson Featured in Guideposts Magazine
In January’s Guidepost inspirational magazine, ASR collaborator and friend Alison Thompson shares the story of how she found her new vocation of passionate volunteer and shines the light on five areas around the world that she feels need our help the most. Hunter and Andrea met Alison in 2007 as they got more deeply involved in the work that became AId Still Required. Utlizing her nurse’s training as a first responder in the months following 9/11 changed Alison’s life and when the 2004 Southeast Asian tsunami hit, her two week trip to offer aid turned into a 14 month Sri…