Floodwaters are in the headlines. Mud is in the photographs. Death toll numbers force a nation to look up. But for children, the disasters continue long after the rain stops. Solutions include prioritizing school repairs and reopenings after a natural disaster, and adding school curricula and activities on how to strengthen Indonesia’s islands against future calamities.

When the 2004 Aceh tsunami struck, I was in Montreal, Canada, having just collected my master's degree and was preparing to return to