ASIA: Tsunami Children Go on Journey of Healing

By Lynette Lee Corporal

BANGKOK, Dec 19 (IPS) - Painful reminders and sources of healing - this is the paradox that characterises the photographs that 144 young tsunami survivors took during their two-year journey toward healing.

It has been two years since the deadly tsunami of Dec. 26, 2004 swept through many parts of Asia and killed more than 200,000 people.

It has been 22 months since youngsters from the worst-hit Banda Aceh in Indonesia first began clicking on the cameras to record what was left of their lives after the tragedy. It has been 10 months since children from Phang Nga in southern Thailand followed suit.

It has only been two years since the disaster, but for these kids, it has been a lifetime. The process of healing has definitely begun.

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