Sunday, June 04, 2006

The hand of a survivor

This picture tells a tale of itself of the situation in Java today after the recent earthquake which killed more than 6,200 people. It shows a hand of an elderly woman undergoing treatment in a makeshift hospital in the earthquake hit Yogjakarta.

This woman can consider herself very fortunate for being alive and being taken care by medical workers. Thousands more are in worse conditions while many more are still taking shelter in the streets.

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