Editor’s note: Every week leading up to the 5-year, 26 December anniversary of the tsunami disaster, we will share a snapshot of life almost five years after the cataclysmic event.
Cut Ummi Kalsum, Indonesia, June 2009. Photo credit: Daniel Cima/American Red Cross (p-IDN1383)
Almost five years since the tsunami disaster, the Red Cross Red Crescent has helped hundreds of thousands of survivors take significant steps along the road to recovery.
Cut Ummi Kalsum, a 55-year-old woman, lost five of her six children in the tsunami and her husband is very ill. Before the tsunami, Cut was a hair dresser, but now she makes sweets and cakes for wholesale to kiosks in the area. This is a Grameen Foundation project funded by the American Red Cross.
Learn more about the tsunami disaster at http://www.ifrc.org/tsunami and http://www.redcross.org/tsunami.
