PADANG QUAKE
‘Cattle Class’

A year after the Padang earthquake many residents still live in temporary shelters. Similarly, schools and government offices are still neglected.

September 29, 2010

THE house of Nurcahya, 70, is now reduced to only one bedroom. The wall is made of salvaged wood, the roof from corrugated zinc sheets. Previously, on that spot there was a house with three bedrooms that were reduced to rubble due to an earthquake of magnitude 7.9 on the Richter scale, last September 30. “Now it looks like a cowshed,” said Sumardi, Nurcahya’s son.

Sumardi revealed that his family did not have enough money to rebuild

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