Before the arrival of the health clinic, villagers relied on the district hospital, which got its first government doctor recently as part of the project.

But because villagers must rely intimately on one another for survival, families have no separate dwellings, not even curtains as partitions.

Most villagers here rely on subsistence farming.

Most villagers rely on sugar cane as a source of income to their families.

On the island's east coast, the tsunami contaminated wells on which many villagers relied for drinking water.

The villagers of Otap rely heavily on tourists visiting this cave for their livelihoods and selling locally produced farm goods to them.

The villagers rely mostly on agriculture and gardening for both sustenance and income generation.

Prior to this the villagers relied on the plentiful supply of wells and water pumps.

There is no public transportation to and from the village so villagers must rely on private transport.

The villagers living in this area widely rely on growing crops and also keep domestic animals.