Aceh in 2005

This photo was taken when I was in the indonesidan province of Aceh, doing some mental ehalth training for an NGO working in relief and development following the Boxing Day 2004 tsunami. this was a moving sight, travelling out the coast road to the north east of Banda Aceh, a pedestrian crossing in what was then a total wasteland. It was very distressing to think of the thriving busy community that would have been there before the tsunami, I was told that where the young man is standing in the foreground of the photo there had been a school.