My family died in a tsunami. I know Indonesia can recover too – with help | Sonali Deraniyagala

There is no blueprint for healing and rebuilding. But there are common challenges that we can understand, and imagine

“I cannot imagine what happened to you” – people would often remark to me. I lost my world in the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. We were on holiday. I survived the deadly wave that struck the southeastern coast of Sri Lanka. My two young sons, my husband and my parents did not.

“I can’t imagine the horror of it,” I’ve heard people say this week as news of the Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia reached us. We heard about Rori, a 29-year-old woman who fled her home with her husband and baby daughter as the earth shook and the floor split and her mother got swallowed into the moving ground.

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