A trip to Aceh: How Tsunami Victims Are Managing.

From: Earth Focus One Planet-One Community | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: Belmouss, Mounia | Copyright information

When you know something, and it is too unbelievable or hard to accept, you can easily deny it, but hen you see it, you cannot deny anything, except the fear and compassion that keeps emerging.

During the Easter break in April 2006, a group of students from Bandung International School of West Java Indonesia--B.I.S., were sent to Aceh on a community service trip with an aim of helping the Fajar Hidayah Orphanage, which was set up in Aceh to help the Tsunami victims. The c...

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