By Cheryl Pellerin, USINFO Staff Writer

Washington - Two years have passed since a massive 9.1-magnitude earthquake off the west coast of Sumatra triggered tsunami waves that inundated the shores of the Indian Ocean, killing nearly 230,000 people - people who had no warning of the approaching disaster.

Today, with help from experts in many countries, a warning system is beginning to take shape in the Indian Ocean, hazard-warning centers in the United States and Japan keep an interim watch

The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami killed more than 200,000 people in countries as far apart as Indonesia, India, the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Somalia.

CAFOD received =A39 million from its own appeal and nearly =A318 million from the joint British aid agency appeal under the Disasters Emergency Committee banner.

CAFOD has given =A321 million to its local

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and other U.S. government agencies launched a comprehensive reconstruction program with $656 million provided by Congress in May 2005 and signed into law by President Bush for the Tsunami Relief and Reconstruction Fund (including

Il convient d'ajouter 300 M€ de prêts à taux concessionnels proposés aux principaux pays touchés et le moratoire décidé en Club de Paris, à l'initiative de notre pays, sur les échéances 2005 des dettes indonésienne et sri lankaise.

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Many families still lack regular income and continue to live in temporary shelters. Restoring livelihoods is taking much longer than expected, as is constructing houses and infrastructure for social services. And children of the tsunami generation, even if most of them are hopeful of a better life, have yet to fully regain a sense of normalcy.

With the help of development partners, governments are strengthening systems and policies vital for children while

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says great progress has been made in helping hundreds of thousands of Indian Ocean tsunami victims recover from the disaster two years ago. But the Red Cross says recovery will not be complete for several years and is urging the international community to remain engaged. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from Red Cross headquarters in Geneva.

On December 26, 2004, the Indian Ocean tsunami killed an estimated quarter of a million people. It devastated

Pendant les périodes d'urgence et de post-urgence suivant le tsunami, nos premières actions ont été définies pour une durée de cinq mois en Indonésie et de dix à douze mois au Sri Lanka.

Le passage de l'urgence au développement s'est construit autour des mois de mai-juin 2005, avec la définition de nouveaux objectifs sur chacun des programmes.

Passée l'urgence, les bénéficiaires des actions de Handicap International dans les zones touchées par le tsunami

Two years after the tsunami which was happened on 26 December 2004, Hong Kong Red Cross (HKRC) continues with recovery programs to assist the affected population in eight countries. Reconstruction and health programs in Indonesia are in full swing. Yet, in Sri Lanka, due to the deteriorating security situation, some rehabilitation activities were hampered. Whereas in the Maldives, India, and Thailand, key programs for the rehabilitation phase are either speedily progressing or completed. In Myanmar, Bangladesh and Seychelles, long-term disaster