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Tsunami one year later - Rebuilding Aceh - EU solidarity at work (Long version)

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Subido el 19 de julio de 2007 por EducaMadrid

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This background TV report highlights the EU's efforts both in the field of emergency assistance and long-term reconstruction in Indonesia's Aceh province, the region worst hit by the tsunami. It shows water sanitation in villages, clearing and drilling of wells, psychological assistance to kids at school, a boat building project for fishermen, a land mapping project to allow reconstruction of houses to start.

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The 26th of December, 2004, with almost 300,000 dead, the tsunami which hit the coast of the 00:00:00
Indian Ocean will remain one of the world's worst disasters. 00:00:12
The northernmost point of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, Aceh, was one of the most seriously 00:00:20
affected regions. 00:00:25
In this province alone, there were 130,000 dead, 90,000 missing, and more than 500,000 00:00:28
made homeless. 00:00:34
Here as in the other places the wave struck, the European Union is heavily committed to 00:00:37
supplying emergency humanitarian aid and reconstruction. 00:00:41
Within the first two months, almost every single person had shelter, had food, had basic 00:00:47
health care. 00:00:53
At this moment, we're more looking at projects which are trying to go, well, to make this 00:00:54
link to full reconstruction. 00:01:01
And that's often small rehabilitation reconstruction from infrastructure which was existing. 00:01:04
One of the first priorities now is to restore the water supply systems. 00:01:11
The European Union is supporting the work of CARE. 00:01:18
This Dutch NGO has been working for months to repair the reservoirs and to bring better 00:01:21
hygiene conditions to the devastated areas. 00:01:25
Water and sanitation is one of the most important things to the people who are affected with 00:01:31
this disaster and that people more vulnerable to the disease, for example, like diarrhea 00:01:37
or infection. 00:01:45
And CARE try to help people based on what they need through community approach. 00:01:46
We have participatory rural appraisal, so we identify what the people need. 00:01:55
Before the disaster, almost every house in this district used a well. 00:02:08
On the 26th of December, the seawater and debris swept in by the tsunami seriously polluted 00:02:12
and damaged all these water sources. 00:02:17
And this has held up the return of the population. 00:02:20
Using local workers, CARE has taken on the repair and the systematic cleansing of every 00:02:27
single one of them. 00:02:31
We targeted 1,000 wells that will be cleaned and rehabilitated. 00:02:37
We already rehabilitated around 500 wells and we will finish it by the end of January. 00:02:42
A thousand wells means that 5,000 people will be able to come back to live in this district. 00:02:52
But there's an even bigger problem. 00:02:59
In infiltrating the ground, the seawater has salinated parts of the water table. 00:03:01
To find sources of drinking water, it's often necessary to drill down as deep as 150 meters. 00:03:06
This is the only way the place can become habitable again. 00:03:12
With the help of European funding, the NGO is also trying to repair the invisible damage. 00:03:19
In this recently rebuilt school, only 45 out of 290 children survived. 00:03:26
And many of them have suffered serious psychological damage. 00:03:32
According to the headmaster, some of them are even frightened of the rain. 00:03:38
From time to time, CARE organizes an activity on the theme of water to reassure them and 00:03:42
also to teach the children that water is also about hygiene, health and life. 00:03:47
The tidal wave has also deprived a large part of the population of all means of subsistence. 00:03:56
On the southern coast of the island of Sumatra, hardly one boat survived the assault of the waves. 00:04:01
And most of the fishermen who survived lost everything. 00:04:06
Without outside help, very few of them have gone back to the sea. 00:04:10
On average, a new boat costs five years of a fisherman's salary. 00:04:14
This is what's motivated Serge Gruel. 00:04:19
He works for Triangle. 00:04:21
This French NGO proposed a scheme to the European Union to help the fishermen to go back to 00:04:23
work by providing them with boats. 00:04:27
Triangle went to meet the fishing communities and together they saw which fishermen were still alive. 00:04:31
From that, lists were drawn up of which fishermen had lost which type of boat and then what 00:04:38
he'd need to go back into fishing as soon as possible. 00:04:43
We give them a boat because they're lost without fishing gear and an engine to be able to go 00:04:47
back to work as soon as possible. 00:04:51
To kick off the project, Triangle hired workers who were also unemployed because of a lack 00:04:55
of customers. 00:05:00
Together they set up a workshop and now produce as many as 10 boats a month. 00:05:02
Of the 131 boats promised to the community, more than 80 have already been delivered to 00:05:08
the fishermen. 00:05:13
The boat builders work hard. 00:05:15
They know how keen the fishermen are to go back to the sea. 00:05:16
They want to work as fishermen again. 00:05:23
They're waiting for their boats to be delivered. 00:05:26
They absolutely want to go back to the sea. 00:05:29
It's their whole life and their living. 00:05:32
Even if it was because of the sea that they lost their work. 00:05:35
When the project ends, happily, it won't mean the workshop will close. 00:05:40
When Triangle leaves here, when we finish our fishing project, we're going to do all 00:05:47
we can to make sure this organization works on its own as some sort of cooperative. 00:05:50
So that's how we think it's going to carry on. 00:05:57
A few kilometers away, European funding is helping Triangle to rehabilitate the small 00:06:06
local fishing port. 00:06:10
Every evening as the boats come back in, all the bustle of the fish market is back as people 00:06:13
get on with all sorts of little jobs. 00:06:17
After school, the small children unload the fish and the older ones stow away the gear. 00:06:21
Meanwhile, the people from Roundabout and a few fish merchants are already bargaining 00:06:27
for the best catches. 00:06:31
It's a whole slice of local life that's gradually getting back on its feet and lots of people 00:06:35
who no longer need assistance can look forward to a real future. 00:06:40
With hundreds of these sorts of projects and a total commitment of around 2 billion 00:06:50
euro, the European Union is the biggest contributor to post-tsunami aid and reconstruction. 00:06:54
In the Indonesian province of Aceh, the European Union has even helped to quell the armed conflict 00:07:03
between the independence movement and the Indonesian government. 00:07:08
Now the EU is working to reintegrate former rebels into civilian life. 00:07:12
Peace and reconstruction go hand in hand. 00:07:16
It's quite clear Europe is committed on all fronts, but to ensure that the situation on 00:07:21
the ground is efficient and coherent, there's a constant need for proper analysis of the 00:07:24
situation and that's the job of the brand new Europe House in Banda Aceh. 00:07:28
We are not managing projects here directly. 00:07:34
We are more trying to get the feeling of what's going on and try to help to refocus our activities 00:07:38
here in Aceh, while at the same time try to talk to as many people, put them around 00:07:46
the table and try to get as coherent activities as possible. 00:07:52
The day after its inauguration, the Europe House premises are still rather empty, unlike 00:07:58
the director's diary. 00:08:02
On the agenda today, housing. 00:08:04
We asked him how it was possible that one year on, tens of thousands of people are still 00:08:06
living in temporary housing. 00:08:10
His answer, you just can't imagine the size of the problem. 00:08:12
To convince us, Francisco Fontan takes us to the land registry in Aceh. 00:08:16
On these photos, he shows us that in certain places, the sea did not completely retreat 00:08:21
and it literally destroyed millions of hectares settled and farmed by local people. 00:08:25
Some lost their land in the disaster and don't know where to rebuild. 00:08:30
Elsewhere, the countryside has been so devastated that it's necessary to redraw the boundaries 00:08:34
of tens of thousands of parcels of land and then find the owners or their heirs. 00:08:40
A huge task to which the European Union is giving financial aid, as well as all the ultra-detailed 00:08:47
satellite images from the European Space Agency. 00:08:52
It's important because the pre-tsunami satellite imagery is probably the best form of evidence 00:08:58
of what the occupation of the land looked like before the tsunami. 00:09:05
In many areas, the tsunami has destroyed all the evidence, like fences and walls. 00:09:10
Some of the evidence has also been destroyed in the cleanup as well. 00:09:17
Armed with the satellite photos, researchers investigate the ravaged areas. 00:09:23
Where did this road go? 00:09:28
Who lived there? 00:09:29
Was there a drainage system? 00:09:31
The slightest clue is used to restore everyone's land to them. 00:09:33
Given the size of the task, dozens of surveyors have been trained to speed up the mapping 00:09:40
of the land. 00:09:44
The local people are waiting impatiently for them to finish because, of course, that means 00:09:46
the builders can move in. 00:09:50
Russia estimates the cost of reconstructing Aceh at more than four billion euros over 00:10:00
the next five years. 00:10:04
Europe will take care of a good part of it. 00:10:06
Already well represented on the ground, the European Union will continue to play a leading 00:10:09
role in reconstruction, and also to support the building of lasting peace in the region. 00:10:13
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