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Photo: PADCO/Craig Keller

USAID helps the Queen Elizabeth Home for Children in Grenada rebuild a home made uninhabitable by Hurricane Ivan. “The children were very afraid as the weather got worse. They were all huddled together in a room where we put tables, with the big children on top of the tables and babies below,” said Shirley Eligon, manager of the Queen Elizabeth Home for Children.

A couple occupies the corner of a room in the emergency department at Zanoel Adidin Hospital in Banda Aceh, the provincial capital of Indonesia's Aceh Province. The young woman on the cot is hooked up to an intravenous drip, and her husband sits on the floor. They speak to each other tenderly as they eat lunch.

Somehow, she survived. But her baby and nine other family members were lost. Suryani's husband, Samsulmasli, who was working his stall at the local market that day, managed to es-cape uninjured, but the tsunami destroyed his business-along with the market and the entire village. Since reuniting, Samsulmasli hasn't left Suryani's side, even when she was sent to Banda Aceh for further medical care for persistent and increasingly serious respiratory problems.

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