(Some schools in Sri Lanka have already opened. Near Banda Aceh, two schools supported by UNICEF opened Monday with 408 students.
Indonesia: Building new and improved schools BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, December 2005 – Desks shake, pencils and markers roll to the floor.
Her sister married aged 11, but Banda vowed to finish school.
"My name is Yuliza Irnanda, I am now 21 years old and, 10 years after the tsunami, praise the lord that I have achieved my dream goal to be a nurse – I've graduated from nursing school in Banda Aceh.
In total, 67 students in a senior high school in Banda Aceh were involved as participants (32 students in the experimental group and 35 students in the control group).
Garden City police issued a statement Monday saying that Banda's son told school officials "his mother and other adults in his residence were avid drug users and that there was a lot of drug use occurring in his residence".
The cops were acting on a tip from the school where Banda's 11-year-old son had been pulled from a drug education class earlier in the day and interrogated by authorities because he disagreed with what the counselor was saying about marijuana.
"It's a particularly sad picture of the remains of a school in Banda Aceh.
The children of Banda Aceh returned to school exactly one month after the disaster.
