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Featured here is a selection of pictures showing Sri Lankan, Achenese, and Nicobarese pupils going to school, some of the very first time since the Indian Ocean tsunami occurred.
An Achenese boy draws during a class
inside a mosque at tsunami shelter in
Banda Aceh, Indonesia January 9, 2005.
At least 156,000 people were killed
across Asia by the Dec. 26 earthquake
and subsequent tsunami, the most
widespread natural disaster in living
memory. Well over 100,000 are missing,
and there is little hope of finding many
of them alive. REUTERS/Romeo
Ranoco
REF: ACE06D2
Acehnese Muslim high-school girls walk
to class on their first day back to
school in the tsunami-hit town of Banda
Aceh on the Indonesian island of Sumatra
January 10, 2005. December 26's 9-
magnitude earthquake and subsequent
tsunami killed at least 156,000 people
along the Indian Ocean, with Aceh
province accounting for almost all of
Indonesia's 104,000 deaths. REUTERS/Kim
Kyung-
Hoon
REF: ACE10D2
Sri Lankan pupils arrive at Vidynloka
College January 10, 2005, damaged by the
Indian Ocean tsunami in coastal city of
Galle on December 26, 2004. A few
students returned for the first time to
school on Monday after the devastating
Indian Ocean tsunami on December 26
which killed more than 150,000 people
across the region. REUTERS/Yves
Herman
REF: YHE03D
An Acehnese Muslim high-school girl sits
in a classroom before the start of the
first day back to class in the tsunami-
hit town of Banda Aceh on the Indonesian
island of Sumatra January 10, 2005.
December 26's 9-magnitude earthquake and
subsequent tsunami killed at least 156,
000 people along the Indian Ocean, with
Aceh province accounting for almost all
of Indonesia's 104,000 deaths. REUTERS/
Kim Kyung-
Hoon
REF: ACE14D2
Saiba, (5), a Nicobarese child survivor
of the tsunami, leaves a class at a
relief camp in Port Blair, the capital
of India's Andaman and Nicobar
archipelago, January 10, 2005. Informal
classes have started in the relief camp
housing over 1,000 Nicobarese tribals
flown in or brought by ship to Port
Blair from the devastated southern
islands. REUTERS/Altaf
Hussain
REF: POR102D
Sri Lankan pupils walks among damaged
benches and chairs outside classrooms at
Vidynloka College in coastal city of
Galle January 10, 2005. A few students
returned for the first time to school on
Monday after the devastating Indian
Ocean tsunami on December 26 which
killed more than 150,000 people across
the region. REUTERS/Yves
Herman
REF: YHE01D
An Acehnese Muslim high school girl
looks for her friends out of a window at
her school on the first day back to
class in the tsunami-hit town of Banda
Aceh, on the Indonesian island of
Sumatra January 10, 2005. REUTERS/Kim
Kyung-
Hoon
REF: ACE12D2
Sri Lankan pupils clean their classroom
at Vidynloka College January 10, 2005,
damaged by the Indian Ocean tsunami in
coastal city of Galle. A few students
returned for the first time to school on
Monday following the devastating Indian
Ocean tsunami on December 26, which
killed more than 150,000 people across
the region. REUTERS/Yves
Herman
REF: YHE05D
A Sri Lankan pupil is comforted by his
mother whilst arriving at Vidynloka
College, January 10, 2005, to start
school for the first time since the
Indian Ocean tsunami hit the coastal
city of Galle on December 26, 2004. A
few students returned for the first time
to school on Monday after the
devastating Indian Ocean tsunami on
December 26 which killed more than 150,
000 people across the region. REUTERS/
Yves
Herman
REF: YHE04D
Nicobarese tribal children who have been
affected by the tsunami listen to a
school teacher (top, centre) during a
class at a relief camp in Port Blair,
the capital of India's Andaman and
Nicobar islands, January 10, 2005.
Informal classes have started in the
relief camp housing over 1,000
Nicobarese tribals flown in or brought
by ship to Port Blair from the
devastated southern islands. REUTERS/
Altaf
Hussain
REF: POR100D
Sri Lankan students arrive at Sudarma
College, damaged by the Indian Ocean
tsunami in coastal city of Galle,
January 10, 2005. Some 400 students of
the collage were killed by the tsunami.
A few students returned for the first
time to school on Monday following the
devastating Indian Ocean tsunami on
December 26, which killed more than 150,
000 people across the region. REUTERS/
Yves
Herman
REF: YHE087D
A Sri Lankan girl arrives at Sudarma
College January 10, 2005, to start
school for the first time since the
Indian Ocean tsunami hit the coastal
city of Galle on December 26, 2004. The
new term at Sudarma College started with
400 childen less, some killed, some
displaced by the tsunami which killed
more than 150,000 people across the
region. REUTERS/Yves
Herman
REF: YHE06D
