The same drive that led Sara Henderson to first take a banking job in Asia years ago has turned her into one of the province's longest-serving aid workers.  The flood of aid money that followed the Asian tsunami five years ago â an unprecedented $12 billion â has rebuilt and refashioned local economies.  After receiving tsunami aid, members of the Irula caste have better jobs, more education and more power. Because they live together, they can stand together. They are a force to be reckoned with.  The 2004 tsunami and the flood of aid money that followed has given devastated villages in India a second chance.  Five years on, an American highway project in the Indonesian province reveals the myriad problems, as well as achievements, of the reconstruction effort.  Scientists said waves produced when the Thera volcano blew more than 3,000 years ago inundated the area that is now Israel and probably other coastal sites.  Foreign medical teams are treating victims of last week’s massive earthquake but also dealing with crowds wanting help for other illnesses.  There were 123 people killed in Samoa, 32 in American Samoa and 9 on a nearby island in Tonga.  Indonesia is the world’s fourth most populous nation. It is also the most dangerous, when earthquakes are taken into the balance.  By MERAIAH FOLEY; MERAIAH FOLEY REPORTED FROM SYDNEY. MARK MCDONALD CONTRIBUTED REPORTING FROM HONG KONG, and SARAH WHEATON FROM NEW YORK.  A tsunami generated by an undersea earthquake has killed at least 89 people and wiped out several villages on the islands of American Samoa and Samoa.
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