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In pictures: Indonesia earthquake response

16 October 2009: Plan is distributing a second batch of emergency relief items to 10,000 people affected by the devastating earthquake that hit Padang in Indonesia.

View pictures below of Plan’s work on the ground and see how the earthquake has affected children’s lives.

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Earthquake response

  • Hundreds of thousands of people have been made homeless by the 7.6 magnitude earthquake.
  • A boy assesses the wreckage of his destroyed family home.
  • Plan staff distributing emergency shelter materials, blankets and hygiene kits in Pariaman Utara.
  • A family carefully navigates around a crack in the road.
  • Children return to their damaged school. After the emergency phase, Plan will launch an 18-month rehabilitation and reconstruction programme that will help children to return to education safely.
  • A school wall destroyed in the quake.
  • Plan tarpaulins are helping to provide temporary shelter for thousands of children and families.
  • Children playing in a temporary shelter.

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