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Aceh, Indonesia, post tsunami disaster, early 2006, you would find a lot of foreigners who voluntarily be a part of team of Humanitarian Aid in Banda Aceh. They came to Aceh to give whatever Aceh people need after the tsunami struck this area, caused a lot of casualties, where people died everywhere, and nothing left, but debris, ruins, and corpses.

They came to Aceh, in their mind, just want to help, nothing more, regardless of race, religion, color, age,.... etc.

One of them Dr Rieffel, a German medical doctor, member of the German Contingency for Humanitarian Aid in Aceh. Who spontaniously decided to join the team and left for Aceh, after he knew from the television that tsunami had struck Aceh, although his family were crying when he decided to go for that reason.

He is already familiar with Indonesia, since he had been working for about 3 months in Sumatera in 1974, when he was 21. " I like Indonesia very much " he said. He and his family almost every year take a vacation to visit Indonesia.

Dr Thomas, a medical team member too, who is specializing in tropical diseases, intensively prevented malaria disease in the west coast of Aceh.

The speaker of the team, Lieutenant Colonel Walter Schmidt, explained that because nothing left here in Aceh, they brought all new hospital instruments from Germany and put in Aceh hospital, which all of them weighted almost 350 tons, and to bring that stuff they had to employ 13 sorties of Hercules aircraft.

They did not have a real problems so far during their duty. " Everything was allright and gone well, except language constraint, but we're really happy because we could help according to what Aceh people actually need ". He added proudly.

Vielen dank Kamerad !
What a beautiful world.