“So every year, I make the children run a tsunami drill.” Mr Watana is now the director of Baan Than Namchai, or Kindness House Children’s Home, where he spent his teenage years. Looking ...
Boxing Day tsunami, forensic investigator Peter Baines wanted to create good from the enormity of loss. Twenty years on, he has raised $30 million for children orphaned by the disaster.
run to your husband'," she told the BBC documentary I Was There - The Boxing Day Tsunami. "There was a lot of water and debris everywhere and I was really confused." Her family quickly travelled ...
Tsunamis are a hot topic in popular culture, lately. But is Florida ready for what some experts have warned for decades is ...
Saudah, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, believes Muhammad Siddiq, who was six when the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami struck ... seven other children to run to the mosque.
Before the tsunami, more than 15,000 people ... “They were shouting ‘run, run, run’. There was a river right there, and it already carried chairs, spring beds and everything – the water ...
Jayarasa Abilash, known as Baby 81 after he was swept away by the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami, stands in front of a monument built in memory of tsunami victims outside his residence in Kurukkalmadam ...
If you live along an ocean shoreline anywhere in the world and a tsunami wave is headed your way, there’s only one reasonable ...
Watana Sittirachot, who runs the Ban Than Namchai, which provided shelter and support to children left homeless and orphaned after the tsunami - Mailee Osten-Tan ...
When the warning goes out, just run for high ground. Ultimately, scientists don't know the worst-case tsunami scenario for Florida. But they have speculated for years that the most likely might be ...
He was embarrassed, and it worsened every time the anniversary of the tsunami arrived. “I used to think ‘Here they have come’ and run inside and hide myself,” he said as journalists ...