On Miracle Makers
by Ginny Wolfe
11 March 2005

This article first appeared on the website of public affairs consultancy firm Manning Selvage & Lee (MS&L)

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the Khaki Boys from Knightsbridge International with whom I was fortunate to spend some time in India and Sri Lanka while on a tsunami relief mission. I came home - but they’re still at it.


So far, they’ve helped build 56 houses in a village called Ranna. Over the next few weeks, they will help build houses with survivors from a small village near Galle, on the west coast of Sri Lanka. The villagers now live in tents in a camp that the Knights helped establish. They have helped fishermen get back on their feet and provided badly needed medicines throughout the country - literally, from its tip to its toe. And in their spare time, they arranged for two young girls - one from Iraq, one from the Philippines - to come to the United States for critical medical care. These are but two of the 145 children they’ve helped bring here for care since March of 2003.


And these are only five guys. They don’t have a big office. They have no staff, and none of them gets paid. They just do the work wherever in the world it’s needed. They want us to know that the needs of tsunami victims are still unimaginable. The news media has moved on to other things, but the reality of the devastation has not.


The Knights are in this for the long haul – they will help the survivors through their recovery and reconstruction. But even Knights can’t turn dust into dollars, though they come pretty darn close. Money still matters. They don’t ask that you give money to them, but they do ask that you continue to be generous and make donations to a charity you trust.


The full story can be viewed at http://mslfocus.com/paperspective/

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