Follow the story of how Helena heard about the tsunami and how her father was able to become involved in support work and later set up the Phi Phi AID project.

. . . . . Boxing Day 2004, Tenterden, and the phone rang inconsiderately early.  It was my aunt from Basingstoke. “Helena, I want you to know before you hear the news, your father is alive. But there has been a huge tidal wave.”

My father, Frederik Jurriaanse, following retirement from teaching at Ridgewaye School and Huntleys School in Tunbridge Wells had moved to his paradise, Phi Phi Island, 14 years before to live with the peace loving Thais. . . . . .

Link to the BBC website article