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  The lives of 45.6 million people were affected when a devastating 8.0 magnitude earthquake rocked southwestern China on May 12, 2008. More than 69,000 people lost their lives and 18,000 remain missing.

 

World Vision’s office, close to the epicentre in Sichuan, immediately deployed assessment teams and began distributing urgently needed food, medicines, quilts and residential tents.

World Vision is assisting with the long term recovery needs of children and their families by building schools, dormitories, health clinics and permanent homes.

 

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Beyond the rubble: An aid worker’s diary of life after the Sichuan earthquake Print E-mail
Monday, 04 August 2008
 
 
Aid worker Tamy Kwok plays with children from Qingchuan County in Sichuan, China. Beyond the rubble: An aid worker’s diary of life after the Sichuan earthquake
World Vision aid worker Tamy Kwok tells what it was like to be caught in the May 12 Sichuan earthquake and what is really behind the smile of a grieving child… “Before I realized what was happening, I began to feel the earth shaking rigorously under my feet. After a while, signboards, bricks and pieces of glass started raining down from the buildings around.”

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China: Child Friendly Space better than home Print E-mail
Monday, 28 July 2008
© World Vision 2008World Vision has provided 150 pre-fab buildings for community shelters in quake-affected areas. They have helped children like Su Jie to begin feeling safer and happier about their lives.

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Aid worker diary: helping children walk out of darkness and into happiness Print E-mail
Friday, 20 June 2008
© World Vision 2008 Aid worker diary: "My mission to Sichuan was to focus on something that people might think an easy job – running World Vision’s "Child Friendly Spaces" (CFS). It is a place where workers like myself have witnessed children walk out of the darkness and into happiness."

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