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A little caffee has been built on the ruins of a house. The survivors in Aceh still try their best to live on even when they have had enormous loses.

Nearly one year after the disaster, huge areas which used to be housing areas are still empty. Khaidir who lost 7 family members to the tsunami tries to make ends meet collecting scrap metal from the tsunami affected areas.

Chocked suvivors waiting to get transported out of the effected areas and into camps. Many are still living as internal displaced people.

Soldiers had been ordered to clear the area for corpses as there was a great risk that desease would spread with the many decaying bodies. The soldiers would rub their protection masks with grinded coffee in order not to vomit from the strong smell…

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Summary, On the 26th of December 2004, an earthquake appeared 150 miles off the Aceh coast situated in western Sumatra, Indonesia. The quake created several huge Tsunamis (seismic sea waves). The deadly waves would strike the coastlines in the Asian…

A Pakistani man and his son make a day-long journey by foot from their mountain village near Kawai, Pakistan on the damaged road to look for shelter in the city of Balakot October 27, 2005.

Pakistani earthquake survivors perform their evening prayers on the former rooftop of a flattened mosque in Balakot, Pakistan October 14, 2005.

Sabir Hussein Shah holds his nine-year-old son Zeeshan while he is treated after having his arm amputated at a field hospital in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan October 30, 2005.

Crowds of Pakistani earthquake survivors and injured watch as a US army helicopter lands in a makeshift refugee camp along a river to pick up the wounded and deliver aid supplies in Balakot, Pakistan October 12, 2005.