Orange Angel has built a total of new 61 houses in and around the town of Kosgoda - about a 2-hour drive south of the capital Colombo - initially for Tsunami victims, later also for homeless families and slum dwellers. These houses were built for people who lived under harsh conditions, often in poor huts, sometimes made of cardboard and palm branches, without clean drinking water, without any possessions and often abandoned by their own population, government and international aid organizations.

Most of them lived "out of sight", often a few kilometers inland come in, where no aid agencies.