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Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia received by villagers and Metropolitan Dr Joseph Mar Irenaeus.

Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia received by villagers and Metropolitan Dr Joseph Mar Irenaeus.

Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, WCC general secretary, was received by villagers and Metropolitan Dr Joseph Mar Irenaeus, CASA chairman, for a brick-laying ceremony of a multi-purpose disaster shelter.

The shelter is the last of 85 houses built as part of CASA (Christian Agency for Social Action) tsunami rehabilitation programme in Edavanakad, a coastal village about 25km from Kochi, Kerala, South India.

The WCC general secretary was on a week-long visit to South India. 

More photos of the India visit.