Easing Suffering Together

Hundreds of organizations are helping with rehabilitation in Aceh and Nias. But the involvement of local people is the key to success.

December 27, 2005

THE praise came from Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, head of the Aceh and Nias Reconstruction & Rehabilitation Agency (BRR). Housing built by World Vision in the village of Lamjabat, Meuraxa district, Banda Aceh, was dubbed the most integrated project implementation.

The British non-governmental organization not only built 139 homes, but also an underground electricity distribution network, a sanitization system and a water supply network. There is also a

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