Typhoon Ketsana struck parts of South East Asia on a week that saw several other major natural disasters. It first buffeted the Philippines, killing more than 300, and then went on to Vietnam and Cambodia. (Photo: Chau Doan/Onasia/Save the Children)
Typhoon Ketsana, which left 163 dead in Vietnam, caused landslides preventing people from working on their fields. Mung is worried about food. "I am afraid my baby will get malnourished. (Photo: Chau Doan/Onasia/Save the Children)
Vieng found her home in Vietnam's Quang Tri province destroyed after returning from the mountains where the family fled the storm. "I cried a lot. How can we build it again? How can we feed our children?" (Photo: Chau Doan/Onasia/Save the Children)
Mai sorts through the debris in her home in Quang Tri province, Vietnam. "We lost everything, our house, four pigs, our savings. Life is terrible for us now, we do not know how we are going to feed our children". (Photo: Chau Doan/Onasia/Save the Children)
Liem had harvested the first of her rice crops the day before the typhoon hit her home in north-east Cambodia. She had to flee the house with her children in the middle of the night. (Photo: Kevin Olson)
When she returned, there was nothing where her house once stood. All of her recently harvested rice and most of her possessions were gone. Typhoon Ketsana left 17 people dead in Cambodia. (Photo: Kevin Olson)
These children from the Quang Ngai province in Vietnam lost their mother during the storm. She died when their house collapsed while they were at their grandparents' house. (Photo: Plan)
The house of this woman from the Quang Tri province in Vietnam was flooded during the storm. (Photo: Plan)
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