Reports

Most families are still living at the bus station. The conditions aren’t good. There are 15 toilets to share between 300 families. The houses that have been built to re-house them were promised to be ready in six months, but in November they will have been waiting 2 years. The new houses look promising from a distance, but up close there’s only one small living room and one bedroom each and it doesn’t matter how big the family, (five children is not unusual). The people will probably never gain the same quality of life they had before the flood, as they don’t have savings and the tourists are slow to return. People are still coming to terms with what’s happened and while some children still have nightmares, many can forget more easily than their parent’s. However the people put on a brave face and their warmth and strength of spirit is an inspiration. They don’t complain and have a brilliant sense of humour despite all that’s happened. 

 

Kebanyakan keluarga masih tinggal di stasiun bis.
Kondisi aren’t baik.
Ada 15 WC untuk membagikan di antara 300 keluarga.
Rumah yang sudah dibangun untuk menampunk kembali mereka dijanjikan untuk menjadi siap pada enam bulan, tetapi pada November mereka sudah akan menunggu 2 tahun.

It took the group of fifteen volunteers from Jersey over 30 hours of travelling to finally reach the village. The first day was spent recovering particularly after the last three and a half hour stretch of bumpy track into the jungle. We arrived on the site of the much needed health clinic to find the local builders had already done a lot of work. They had reached the first floor and so the first job was to get the area ready to concrete. We had to lay wooden boards on the floor and tie the metal reinforcements by hand. All work was carried out without western mod-cons. Then it was brick-laying to reach the roof level. It was very hot on site with temperatures reaching 40 degrees. So it was refreshing to have a river nearby to cool off after work.