Tsunami survivors struggle to rebuild shattered lives

FRUSTRATED, living in tents and jobless, survivors of last December's tsunami that killed up to 232,000 people around the Indian Ocean are struggling to rebuild six months later.

In the countries most affected - Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand - survivors gripe that reconstruction of homes, the rebuilding of schools and the creation of work has barely begun.

Emergency relief is still being distributed, with the World Food Programme feeding nearly two million people in the region.