UNICEF: Tsunami four years later: Building Back Better

NEW YORK, USA, 23 December 2008 The immediate emergency sparked by the Indian Ocean tsunami four years ago is drawing to a close, but UNICEF is committed to long-term interventions that go beyond repairing or replacing what was destroyed.

UNICEFs policy of building back better means that the needs of millions of vulnerable children and women are being met in ways that were not available before the disaster.

For instance, better-designed, earthquake-resistant schools are being constructed, health care is now reaching isolated and marginalized communities, and water and sanitation is being provided in areas where it was previously inaccessible.

To read the full story, visit: http://www.unicef.org/emerg/disasterinasia/index_46938.html

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• 2004