aceh

The world has likely all but forgotten how nearly eight years ago, a devastating earthquake triggered an even worse tsunami that destroyed much of the Aceh province in Indonesia. Over 200,000 were killed (that are known about). Thousands of communities and villages were wiped out. I was there a month after, helping to bring medical supplies in, and saw the immense and unimaginable devastation first hand, and then a year later I was back for a followup report. (You can see a report I published in the November 2005 PDF issue of Momentum). Whenever a disaster occurs, there are typically [...]