Got the shakes

Spent most of last week in the West coast of Aceh. There is construction still going on in many places and its hard to imagine that just over two years ago everything was flattened. As we traveled the 6 hours south of Banda you pass through the NGO villages each one a bit different in colour and style. Some said it reminded them of Butlins camps and it is a bit like that. We are working near Calang where everything was destroyed; the population was halved and no infrastructure was left.
On the second day we continued South to the place known as “ground zero” by the press. Spent a day in Meuluboh where we met UNICEF (a potential donor) and caught up with some old friends from Tearfund. Meuluboh was the nearest town to the earthquake’s epicenter and it was known as “ground zero” by the press. When they rebuilt they just moved the town North to an unaffected area. Now it has big, fancy houses and wide tarmac roads.
Last night I was woken up to the bed swaying from one side to another. Just a reminder that we very close to a fault line and earthquakes are a reality.