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...mayor of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, returned to his city a day after a tsunami struck on Dec. 26. His first act: to show people how they could help themselves...
...first priority is to provide these three things for the people--housing, food and clean water, and health care--while you take care of the infrastructure. One major difference between Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami is that we in Banda Aceh were totally caught off guard. We didn't even know that water could rise that high. The Americans, I believe, are more familiar with hurricanes...
...imagine how we could have survived the first few days--before help started arriving--without the solidarity among the people of Banda Aceh. And now I can't imagine how Aceh would be able to get back on its own feet without the solidarity of the world community. We lost 62,000 lives in Banda Aceh alone. It's been eight months since the tsunami struck. Look how slow the rebuilding of people's houses has been...
...Friday night, 20 undergraduates from a Habitat for Humanity trip danced cha-cha on the dark floor of a club called Cafe Brasil. Some sipped out of plastic cups, listening to a man singing on stage. The act was Fredy Omar con su Banda, an eight-member crew with one main vocalist—Fredy Omar himself...
...were left without electricity; hundreds are homeless. The federal government announced a $A100 million relief package, and former Defence Force chief General Peter Cosgrove has been put in charge of the reconstruction effort. Some 450 State Emergency Services personnel have joined 300 soldiers, many of whom participated in the Banda Aceh relief effort after the 2004 tsunami...