Imagine coming from school to find your house submerged in grey mud and your community destroyed forever.
This is what happened to Yora, a young girl from the village of Siring in eastern Java, Indonesia and her father Marsudiyono. They were among the many victims of the Sidoarjo mud volcano, the biggest in the world, which erupted in May 2006. The eruption was caused by the fracking activities of Lapindo Brantas, a company set up by two big Indonesian companies and Australian oil firm Santos to extract natural gas from beneath the town of Sidoarjo. (more…)