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Mrs Nallanayaki
Age: 48
Home: Kalkudah village, East coast of Sri Lanka
Mrs Nallanayaki’s house in Sri Lanka was hundreds of metres from the sea, but the tsunami still completely destroyed it. At one point she wondered whether to carry on running away from the wave. But she did, and now the big challenge is how to run her life amidst the destruction.
Filed in: Asia, Climate Change

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Sri Lanka
literacy rate: 92%
life expectancy: 72
reconstruction cost: $1.3 - 1.5bn
unemployment rate: 19%