five years and 300,000 lives

It’s hard to believe that Saturday will mark five years since the devastating south Asian Tsunami which claimed some 300,000 lives. To mark this anniversary – hardly one to celebrate – DFID, the department for international development, dispatched Panos photographer Abbie Trayler Smith to show how British money has helped rebuild shattered lives in Banda Aceh, one of the many impoverished communities hit, and this audio slideshow is the result. It’s great that government comms people – as well as some NGOs – are starting to recognise the power of using multimedia to tell genuine stories.