Leeza Khalid, 23, cradles her one year old daughter Mishka, as she remembers the morning her life changed forever.

She was cooking at home on 26 December 2004 when she heard a "huge noise" and saw a "giant wave from the window." Terrified, she screamed to her seven younger brothers and sisters to wake up. "Water was already up to my legs," she recalls. As they fled, a second wave hit, flattening their house.

Leeza and the hundreds of other residents of Kandholhudhoo island lost their homes that day, as the Indian Ocean

"I was only thinking of how to get to the hills that time," remembered Leni, a young mother of a three year old daughter. "I kept remembering the Aceh tsunami while we were running away. The Aceh tsunami taught us a lot. It raised our awareness on earthquakes and tsunamis." On the night of 13 September, when an earthquake off the coast of Sumatra triggered tsunami warnings around the Indian Ocean, people knew what to do.

The Asian tsunami of 26 December 2004 killed nearly 300 000 people and devastated the livelihoods of millions more, many of them poor fishers and fish farmers. Indeed, fisheries and aquaculture were the hardest-hit sectors, with large numbers of boats, fishing gear, aquaculture ponds and support installations damaged or destroyed.

FAO's Fisheries and Aquaculture Department has played a leading role in helping fishers and fish farmers in the region get back on their feet, building and repairing boats, providing replacement

This appeal document sets out briefly the main outcomes the programmes seek to achieve over the next two years. More detailed information is provided in the 2008-2009 Programme Support Plan and Summary Matrix.

In a world of global challenges, continued poverty, inequity, and increasing vulnerability to disasters and disease,

According to the International Federation's Tsunami three-year progress report - a report that captures the collective efforts of the more than 30 Red Cross and Red Crescent societies involved in the operation - International Federation relief and recovery efforts have reached an estimated 3,873,000 people in ten affected countries. In

The 26 December 2004 tsunami killed more than 200,000 people in countries as far apart as Indonesia, India, the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Somalia.

Caritas, one of the world=12s largest networks of aid agencies, responded to the tsunami with a $485,000,000 programme to be spent over five years.

The money has been used on providing

Overall financial picture of tsunami programmes

US$695.2 million was received for tsunami programmes, slightly lower than what was reported last year, due to finalization of some contributions. Three-quarters of all funding came from UNICEF National Committees (Fig. 1). Unearmarked, thematic funds account for 53% of all funds received.

As the third anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami approaches, the British Red Cross has opened an innovative photographic exhibition that displays images taken by tsunami survivors in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Maldives.

Three years on from the tsunami, which devastated vast swathes of Asia, people whose lives were torn apart have taken part in a photography project to show how they are putting their lives back together.

Officially opening the exhibition London, Shahid Malik MP, a minister for international development said: "There

L'ensemble de ces projets permet de venir en aide à 900.000 personnes victimes du tsunami (hors Afrique de l'Est) ; leur nombre s'élève à plus de 1, 5 million si l'on inclut les 600.000 personnes bénéficiant du programme de la Plateforme d'intervention régionale