Banda Aceh, Indonesia: They live among thousands of other survivors in a crowded refugee camp. Their tent is hot and cluttered with dirty dishes and clothes. A newborn baby cries in the corner.
But at least the family is together.
Fish vendor Amiruddin refused to give up on his young daughter, Putri, who was swept away from her family by the tsunami's surging waters as they clambered on to the roof of their home to escape.
For three weeks, he searched through the rubble and the morgues of his devastated city before he found her, prompting a joyous reunion that became a symbol of hope for thousands of other victims after the December 26 tsunami left at least 216,000 people dead or missing in a dozen countries.
But the celebrity was too much for the shy girl with big brown eyes and dark hair, now 8. Putri stopped going to school two months ago because she was so afraid of the reporters and cameraman who followed her everywhere.
The attention doesn't bother Putri's four brothers and sisters, however. "I don't mind," said 10-year-old Mirnawati. "I like it ... sometimes the journalists take pictures of me, too."
At the TVRI refugee camp on the outskirts of Banda Aceh, the family lives with some 2,000 other survivors. Their tent is badly ventilated, chaotic and messy. There are piles of dirty laundry stacked in the corner.
Putri's mother Hernini refuses to complain.
"He lost his everyone ... his wife, his two children," says Hernini, 35, pointing to her neighbour. "We're lucky. We have each other. That's the most important thing."
Putri is a cheerful child, her mother says, but since the tsunami has become especially shy around strangers.
For months after the family was reunited, Putri refused to leave her mother's side, sharing her bed and holding her tightly as they slept. She was afraid someone might snatch her away.
Now Putri sleeps alone and at times plays happily with other children in the camp. She no longer jumps at loud noises and occasionally ventures to the market with her father.
Meanwhile, a year after the tsunami swept away his immediate family, 8-year-old Swedish Karl Nilsson is adjusting to a whole new life a different home, school and friends. The boy was found injured and alone amid the wreckage of what had been a sunny Thailand vacation for him and his family. Gone were his father, mother and two brothers.
Now he is living with his grandparents in Boden, about 40km from his old home in Lulea and 900km north of Stockholm, according to Marie Guldstrand, a Swedish doctor whose family found the boy and brought him back to Sweden.
Guldstrand reported a recent conversation the boy had with his grandmother to show he is getting past his ordeal. He asked her to take him to see Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and was asked if it won't be scary.
"But he said, 'I don't get scared, I have been through the tsunami'," Guldstrand recounted.
