Humankind united to help tsunami victims

Humankind united to help tsunami victims

It is now one year since a massive magnitude-9.0 earthquake and
deadly tidal waves devastated certain coastal regions of the
northern Indian Ocean region, including Aceh province and Nias
island in Indonesia, killing more than 220,000 people in a dozen
countries. Unfortunately, Aceh was the worst hit area with at
least 130,000 people dead and 40,000 others listed as missing.
For the first time in human history, people from across the globe
cut through barriers of age, gender, economic status, ethnicity,
race and religion to join hands as one family to help the tsunami
victims. Many did not even know where the Aceh was. Yet millions
of people as well as scores of governments from all continents
generously donated much-needed money and goods to the people of
Aceh. Troops as well as volunteers from various countries came to
Aceh and worked shoulder to shoulder in difficult terrain to help
their fellow human beings. In the process, some even lost their
lives, such as the nine Australian soldiers who died in an
accident while helping tsunami victims. We dedicate this page to
the thousands of people who have helped the victims of this
catastrophe. -- JP