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Tsumani Survivors Find New Jobs


bbc newsround
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20 December 2005




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Almost a year after an earthquake and tsunami devastated Asia, more than two thirds of the people who their jobs as a result have new ones.

Many of the new jobs are related to the problems caused by the tsunami, like building and clearing farmland.

UK charity Oxfam published the report called to Work, which says more than a jobs were lost.

The worst affected were fishing, small-scale farmers, labourers, small businesses and .

In Bangladesh around of the fishing boats damaged by the tsunami have been .

Thousands of hectares of farm land has also been cleared, with a number of crops as well.

The earthquake and resulting tsunami on 26 December 2004 killed more than people - 50,000 of them estimated to be children - in a countries in south east Asia.


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