"The tsunami left us almost completely without hope," she recalls. Her village of Kudawella, which had a population of 700 or 800, lost more than 100 people in the tsunami. Derika herself happened to be away at the time.
「海嘯後我幾乎失去希望，」黛薇卡居住的庫達維樂村，原有一百多戶共七、八百位居民，海嘯中一百多人罹難。