My family died in a tsunami. I know Indonesia can recover too - with help | Sonali Deraniyagala
(The Guardian Indonesia)

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. Related: Inside Palu city - Sulawesi earthquake survivor stories With therapy I learned to tolerate the unbearable, and to process the unthinkable. And I was able to revive Related: Tsunami: the terrible toll Continue reading...