Oxfam staff talk with local officials in Sungai Durian, a village where six people died and 1,109 houses were badly damaged.
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A house collapsed by a landslide in Agam.
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An Oxfam tarpaulin at a damaged house in Agam.
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Monica, 9 years old, has been staying in these tents with her family since the earthquake, as their house is unsafe.
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73-year-old Rohani and her family in the marketplace where 1,980 people are living. She tells us that her family are generally happy – they have enough food, but they have to walk for about half an hour to get drinking water. She said the concrete they are sleeping on is very hard, and they would like blankets and mattresses. She also said it’s very crowded. Her family make their living from fishing, and they can’t go fishing at the moment. The schools are closed so children can’t go to school. They spend their days sleeping and playing.
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A woman collecting clean water from the tapstand, Padangalai.
Photo: Laura Eldon
People in Padang are washing in the river. Water supplies have been down since the earthquake, so people have been using the river to wash.
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A woman clearing rubble from her house in Naggalo.
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Oxfam is trucking water to tanks in Padangalai. Each orange tank holds 1,000 litres of clean water. We're providing the village with 9,000 litres each day. Trucks come to refill the tanks twice a day.
Oxfam is planning to provide water to 9 sub-villages in the area. There are around 250 families in each (approx. 1,000 people).
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Oxfam staff discuss planned distributions of Oxfam buckets.
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Members of the emergency response team have been flying in since the earthquake hit.
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Nurhasnah, a volunteer with Oxfam's local partner Kabisat. Oxfam has been working with Kabisat since 2007. Thanks to our close working relationship we were able to hit the road running and start responding to the earthquake the day after it happened with immediate distributions of tarpaulins that we had stockpiled in the event of such a disaster.
Kabisat's office was damaged in the earthquake, so they've been working out of the warehouse they share with Oxfam.
Photo: Laura Eldon
