Ten thousands of people became homeless after the tsunami in Aceh.
In camps they are waiting for new shelter. It could be for years.
Funny how in the one place you think about the other. Have that regularly. In Banda Aceh I think about Meulaboh, and there I thought about Banda Aceh. The same happened in Somalia. There I was thinking about Nairobi, just as I was thinking there about Bujumbura or Khartoum. Maybe you need distance to contemplate. It's a interesting phenomenon, and I will think about it, somewhere.
Glad to be re-connected for blogging. Today is editing the footage of a mental health activity in a camp near Banda Aceh.
The sun is shining, and as usually the cows were blocking the road to the place where I do my Internet. The cars and the motor bikes slow down to give the chewing animals way. They don't seem to have an owner, and that's different from Kenya where you always see somebody herding. When slowing down I noticed again that women in Aceh ride motor bikes. They wear the compulsory veil, and some put a helmet on top, and even shades.
What amazed me in the news is that a big company is going to build a huge wireless internet connection in Banda Aceh, with a reach of 50 km. It's presented as a tsunami relief project. What are people who live from fishing and farming going to do with it? They lived for centuries without Internet, and now a tsunami makes it suddenly necessary? From the 6,000 pledged houses in the affected area 1,000 are built.