How life goes on after an earthquake: The ‘Lego schools’ of Lombok

A block classroom at Jenggala primary school in a remote rural community on Lombok island, where there was extensive damage from an earthquake in 2018, opened in April this year [Courtesy of Classroom of Hope]

Lombok, Indonesia – Azra, 13, recalls running out of her house when a violent magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck one evening about six years ago. Most people were inside their homes eating or watching television.

“We saw the houses collapsing one by one, it brought a big trauma for us,” she recalls.