This brief article distills some of the findings around Aravanis’ experiences following the 2008 Indian Ocean Tsunami from Pincha’s longer, original study. This article focuses on the specific discrimination of being ineligible to access emergency services such as ration cards.
The article includes broad recommendations to meet the safe housing, access to citizenship documents, secure livelihoods including training and access to credit, and other gender-sensitive needs assessment mechanisms.
The importance of strong advocacy and lobbying with policy-makers is also discussed, as is the importance of donors specifying funding for Aravanis.
