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Five years on

In December 2004 countries bordering the Indian Ocean felt the impact of one of the world's most brutal natural disasters. The tsunami that struck on Boxing Day morning killed hundreds of thousands of people and left millions without homes. 

For the past five years, we have been working with communities in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, helping them rebuild their homes and their lives.

Work on more than 40 projects is almost complete.
   
Surviving the tsunami: a new multimedia documentary combining imagery with eyewitness accounts, produced by IFRC and Thomson Reuters Foundation to mark the fifth anniversary.

Over this time we have:

  • brought clean water and sanitation to more than 125,000 people
  • built more than 2,100 houses
  • helped more than 200 people find new ways to make a living and start new businesses
  • started up new blood collection and ambulance services in Banda Aceh
  • supported the building of a new island community in the Maldives, the biggest ever project undertaken by the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

Program highlights

Indonesia

  • more than 1,600 houses completed
  • more than 2,500 toilets built for homes across several sites
  • 250 people trained in crop management, more than 100 home gardens established and 24 small businesses set up, with training provided for more than 150 people.

Download the fact sheet on the tsunami response in Indonesia
[file size: 165kb/type: PDF]

Maldives

  • clean up completed on 74 islands, removing the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks of tsunami debris
  • country operations closed in July 2007.

Download the fact sheet on the tsunami response in the Maldives
[file size: 135kb/type: PDF]

Sri Lanka

  • more than 1,100 houses completed or under construction
  • housing projects in the north -- on hold since 2006 because of the conflict -- have recommenced
  • country office closed in December 2007 with more than 90,000 people benefiting from programs.

Download the fact sheet on the tsunami response in Sri Lanka
[file size: 255kb/type:PDF]

 
Stories from the field: Asia quake and tsunamis
Below are the most recent stories from the field. For a full list of stories relating to this response, visit the Stories from the field: Asia quake and tsunamis archive page.

 

Indonesia: sewing the seeds of change (07/12/09)

  Sri Lanka: Housing projects restart in Sri Lanka (July 2009)
 

Maldives: New island life (22/04/09)


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Community focus key to tsunami recovery effort (22/12/09)

For a full list of news items relating to this appeal, visit the
Asia quake and tsunamis appeal news archive page.
 

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