Tsunami: Five Years Later – Part Three

Posted December 30, 2009 6:53 pm.

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It’s been a full five years since the Boxing Day tsunami left a trail of death and destruction in twelve countries. But no place was harder hit than the Aceh Province in Indonesia. In the wake of the tragedy, Canadians donated over $360 million to the Red Cross.

All this week, Gord Martineau travels back to Indonesia to see how your money was spent.

In part three of “Tsunami: Five Years Later,” a village that was relocated and rebuilt following the flood.

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