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Help Mend Families

The western coastal areas of Aceh were among the areas hardest-hit by the tsunami resulting from the Indian Ocean earthquake on December 26, 2004. While estimates vary, approximately 230,000 people were killed by the earthquake and tsunami in Aceh, and about 500,000 were left homeless.(source Wikipedia.org).

Every family in the city of Banda Aceh lost at least one member, everyone of the survivors lost someone loved in 26 of December 2004 and the people in this serie of portraits are no exception...

Some families can not be reunited but some can and should be...

Cambodia - People of the Lake

The Tonle Sap lake is the biggest lake in SE Asia and home for few comunities which are living in suspended/floating villages.

Houses are built on stils and people are using boats for their dailly business.

Children are learning how to handle a boat in the same time they learn how to walk.


The goods people need are all coming on the wather including a boat - shop selling everything from chewing gum to rice and rope.

In the last year the village became sort of a touristic atraction. Boats like this are bringing tourists to see the wonder.

The walls of the houses are built out of knited young branches harvested in the nearby floaded forest.

Tonlé Sap is one of the most productive inland fisheries in the world, supporting over 3 million people and providing over 75% of Cambodia's annual inland fish catch and 60% of the Cambodians' protein intake(Source Wikipedia).The main ocupation of the lake people is obviously fishery.

Children which are lucky enough to get an education are brought to the floating school by boat.

So if you go there and have enough of the magnificent Ankgor Wat temples, visit the people of the lake .

stay alert for the Ankgor Wat update.

Bali Streets 1

peace of mind. extinguished fire.