World Vision staff head to Asia for earthquake/tsunami response
Federal Way-based agency will send communications team to India
December 27, 2004
SEATTLE -- World Vision, the Federal Way based Christian relief and development organization, will send videographer Tom Costanza and photographer Jon Warren to India to cover the organization’s response to the deadly earthquake and tsunami ravaging coastlines surrounding the Indian Ocean.
According to the BBC, the death toll has exceeded 14,000 in the combined earthquake and tsunamis in Indonesia, Thailand, Bangladesh and India, among other nations. Tidal waves have been reported as far west as Somalia in East Africa.
Costanza and Warren will be available for interviews.
WHO: Jon Warren, photographer
Tom Costanza, videographer
WHAT: The pair will travel to India to cover World Vision’s response to the earthquake and tsunami.
WHEN: 11:00 a.m. to noon, Monday, December 27, 2004
WHERE: Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Northwest ticket counter
For more information on World Vision’s response, or on ways the public can help, please visit www.worldvision.org, or phone 888-56-CHILD.
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World Vision is a Christian relief and development organization dedicated to helping children and their communities worldwide reach their full potential by tackling the root causes of poverty.
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