While one child we feature has, tragically, lost both parents in the disaster, our focus is not just on the orphaned children. Many children survived the disaster with one or both their parents -- but had their normal lives, education and recreation shattered.

We give more prominence to the children for story telling purposes, but our interest is in the entire family unit -- everyone who has survived, including grandparents and close relatives, who in normal times would have been part of the extended family in the Asian context. We will also explore how family dynamics have been radically altered by the disaster, e.g. with elder siblings having to become bread-winners, or grandparents having to take care of grandchildren.