The tsunami crisis on 26 December 2004 caused large-scale destruction never seen in the history of natural disasters. Many countries in the North Indian Oceans were affected, leaving hundreds of thousands of families without food, shelter and clothing. Towns and villages they called home were erased from the map.

After liaising with the Tsunami Global Relief co-ordinators in Johannesburg, Knowledge Base Software has offered to lend assistance to the South African engineers who have volunteered their services and expertise in the infrastructural rehabilitation and redevelopment of affected countries.

"We have targeted over a million rands worth of support that we would like to contribute to Tsunami Relief. After years of developing Civil Designer and AllyCAD, we will be offering our software at no charge to assist with the reconstruction process," says Vincent Bester, managing director of Knowledge Base Software.

"Our involvement to supply completely integrated civil engineering software will be backed by our Support Centre who will assist the Tsunami Relief Project engineers to resolve software related queries and also assist in technical problem solving. In this way our qualified and highly skilled professionals will work alongside the Tsunami Engineering team to resolve critical issues, but will operate from our offices in South Africa," notes Bester.

For more information contact Yolanda Desai, Knowledge Base Software, 021 701 1850, yolanda@knowbase.co.za