AMYRIAD of difficulties must be overcome to set education in motion again in Aceh. Many pupils no longer have their school uniforms. Tents must be put up for classrooms. The pupils sit on the ground while studying as there are no desks. Their school reports were lost in the tsunami.

These are the difficulties that two social activists, Sri Rosyanti and Sri Irianingsih, both known as twin mothers, have to face when helping schoolchildren