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by Chris Lombardi
Sara Henderson remembers exactly where she was on Christmas night five years ago, when she learned that a powerful earthquake had caused a tsunami off the coast of Indonesia, killing over 200,000 people and leaving far more without homes. "I was in New York for Christmas," she told WVFC this week. "It was 9 p.m. New York time."
Henderson's body clock was partly on Jakarta time, since she'd been living in Jakarta, Indonesia for most of the prior fifteen years. That night Henderson, who'd recently retired from investment banking after 25 years, was shocked and moved to help the country that had become her second home. But she knew almost nothing about Aceh, the war-torn region that had received the storm's epicenter. "We weren’t allowed, as foreigners, to travel there," she said. It wasn't until a few months after she returned to Indonesia that Henderson saw Aceh for the first time, without an idea of what she might be able to do to help. And as she began her first project, building 41 homes in the devastated village of Rumpit, "I had to go through 32 military checkpoints every day," because the local civil war was in full effect.
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