Galle is about two and half hours south of Colombo, on the southern tip of Sri Lanka.
And it is a far different place today than it was the last time I was here – two weeks after the tsunami devastated much of its coastal length.
I spent some of today with families who had their homes rebuilt, resettled by the government to sites further inland, away from the sea.
Caritas had rebuilt their homes, and there – as throughout the city, from what I could tell today – life has largely returned to normal.
It is a fairly rare opportunity in this kind of work, to return to the places, years later, that you saw at their worst – in the midst of conflict, ravaged by drought or flood, or victimized by the sea.
And though I spent only one day here, it is nice to see people rising up from the wreckage that the tsunami wrought.
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