After the immediate relief is over, the next stage is to help people return to normal lives, with an upgrade. Before starting reconstruction Friendship assesses which of the disaster victims are the poorest and most affected. We provide material to rebuild safer, more durable homes, so that inhabitants of thatched huts go back to tin roofs. Friendship ensures fresh drinkable water by providing tube wells and cleaning ponds, and builds sanitary latrines alongside the new homes. Disaster survivors are introduced to our income generation programme which provides means for livelihood, through the provision of boats, solar panels, seeds and fertiliser, and fisheries and poultry.