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As dawn broke on December 26 of last year, it appeared that Sunday would be no different than other weekend days across Asia. That changed when the most powerful earthquake in more than 40 years struck under the Indian Ocean. The ensuing massive tsunamis wiped out cities and killed tens of thousands of people in a dozen countries.
More than 230,000 people died or are missing and more than 1.8 million people were displaced by December 26 tsunami.
A year after the disaster, the rebuilding of homes in the devastated zones is slowly moving ahead but there is still a huge amount of work to be done. Vast numbers of displaced people are still camped out in tents and according to aid organisation Oxfam, only around one-fifth of the homeless will be in permanent homes.
In Indonesia's Aceh, by the end of 2005 around one-quarter of the people in need will be in new permanent homes and in Sri Lanka, some 5,000 out of 78,000 homes will have been completed. The impact of the tsunami will continue to be felt for many years.
It has now been a year since the tsunami.
One Year Later
A collection of sites and special features to remember the tsunami
- Channel News Asia
- Tsunami Disaster - One Year On
- CNN
- Special Reports: Tsunami, One Year Later
- SOS Children's Village
- Tsunami - A year on
- Save the Children UK
- Progress report on tsunami relief efforts
- Medecins Sans Frontieres
- One year after the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster
- ICRC in Asia and the Pacific
- The tsunami: one year on
How you can help?
Giving aids to tsunami relief
- Medecins Sans Frontieres
- Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international humanitarian aid organisation that provides emergency medical assistance to populations in danger in more than 70 countries.
- Oxfam International
- Oxfam International is a confederation of 12 organizations working together with over 3,000 partners in more than 100 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice
- Save the Children UK
- Save the Children fights for children in the UK and around the world who suffer from poverty, disease, injustice and violence. We work with them to find lifelong answers to the problems they face
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- ICRC relies on everyone's commitment to the humanitarian cause and its underlying values. The strongest possible support from individuals, companies and foundations is essential if we are to meet the challenges we are currently facing
- The UN Refugee Agency
- The agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees
- World Food Programme
- We would like to express our deepest thanks to you - our donors - for your generous support to WFP over the past few years. Thanks to you, we feed an average 90 million people every year
- UNICEF
- UNICEF is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized. We have the global authority to influence decision-makers, and the variety of partners at grassroots level to turn the most innovative ideas into reality
- Sarvodaya (Sri Lanka)
- Sarvodaya is a Sri Lankan organization developed around a set of coherent philosophical tenets drawn from Buddhism and Gandhian thought. It has been operational for almost 50 years
- N&E Sri Lanka Tsunami Relief
- We are the only UK charity that has been able to consistently deliver aid through to the north and east of Sri Lanka since the Tsunami. We are able to do this because of our unequalled experience in providing aid to the area and our intimate local knowledge
- Disaster Emergency Committee
- The DEC was created in 1963. It brings together a unique alliance of the UK's aid, corporate, public and broadcasting sectors to rally the nation's compassion, and ensure that funds raised go to DEC agencies best placed to deliver effective and timely relief to people most in need
Tsunami Photos from Flickr
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Resources on Asian Tsunami
With emphasis on video and images on the disaster
- Asian Tsunami 2004
- My post to commemorate the 1st annivesary of the tsunami
- 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake
- Official entry on Wikipedia
- Tsunami
- Official entry on Wikipedia
- Asian Tsunami 2004 Information Portal
- Tsunami2004.net is a dedicated, non-commercial information portal on Tsunami 2004
- Tsunami Magniture of Terror
- ThinkQuest Team 01724 takes you back in time to revisit an extraordinary tsunami
- Asian Tsunami Photos
- Over 21,000 tsunami photos, videos and news stories in 226 Galleries
- Asian Tsunami Disaster on Yahoo! News Photo
- A slide show presentation on Yahoo!
- Indian Ocean Tsunami Disaster in Asia
- Satellite images of tsunami-affected areas from National University of Singapore
- Tsunamis.com
- The tsunami pictures depict the horrible reality of the tsunami disaster
- The Great Earthquake and Catastrophic Tsunami of 2004
- Six photo essays published 3 January 2005 to 8 January 2005 in the Chamorro and English languages on ChamorroBible.org (United States). Includes images of the humanitarian and relief efforts
- Asian Tsunami Videos
- Amateur tsunami video footage
- Images of Tsunami Sites
- 2004 Asian Tsunami Satellite Images (Before and After)
- Washington University
- Computer-generated animation of a tsunami
- The Survivors
- A moving travelogue full of stunning images along the tsunami ravaged South-Western Coast of India
Tsunami on Technorati
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