Save Banda Aceh Tsunami Refugee

“It was bittersweet. I am really glad that my house and [immediate] family were not affected, but on that day I lost something greater, my relatives,” he says. “After the tsunami, people were in shock, the economic activity in the area was pretty much on standstill for the next few months. I remember receiving food assistance at home and in school. It was not easy to purchase food at the time.”