Tsunami Survivors Find Hope

Rebuilding is going on all over Banda Aceh, Indonesia, which was hit by a powerful and devastating tsunami one year ago.

But it is unlikely that survivors will ever forget that day, which took more than 200,000 lives and left more than a million people homeless in 12 countries.

In the week before the Dec. 26 anniversary, CBS News correspondent Barry Petersen met survivor Namali Fakli at what was once his house and is now a pile of rubble. And he is not alone. It happened to his entire neighborhood, and now 70,000 people are living in a tent city while rebuilding continues.

But as people rebuild their homes and their lives, they also need to rebuild their spirits.

Namali, who grabbed one daughter and climbed a tree to survive the tsunami, shows Petersen the list of those who didn't make it. The names of his father, mother, brother, wife and two sisters are there. A year later, their deaths haunt him still.

Still, he is determined to rebuild.

"This is my destiny," he said. "I must live here with all my memories. They are my family; there is no way to forget them."

Paul Dillon, who has been in Banda Aceh since the tsunami hit, says it will be a generation before the psychological scars begin to heal.

"The bottom line is every family in the province — a province of 4 and a half million — was directly touched by the events of Dec. 26," he said.

Even in the areas where new houses are up and more is being built, Peterson said, it is hard to get past that day. For example, the Afni family has a new house, complete with flowers to water — but it's not enough. Twenty-seven-year-old Cholila cannot forget the two sisters she lost a year ago.

But Petersen also found signs of hope and healing. There is a bit of a baby boom going on which shows that people are starting over and making new memories to someday replace the old.