"If we talk about being strong, living alone without a husband, we have to. How can we not be strong? Even though we lived alone, we have been chased by everything. We've been chased by bullets,. fire,. and now we've also been chased by water.."
Those are the words of a woman from the East Aceh District of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam. She is like many other women in Aceh who have lived through hardships and conflict -- and then the tsunami came in December 2004.
She, like many others, now act as heads of the their households. Sometimes this was because they had been separated or left by their husbands, either because of the long conflict in Aceh or because of illness. In some cases, the women were left alone without any news of what happened to their spouses.
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