THAILAND: A desperate relative left a two-week old baby, orphaned by the tsunami, in a park on Phuket island with a note attached asking for someone to take care of him.
The baby was brought to the paediatrics ward of the Vichiraphuket hospital, where the nurses have taken him under their wings.
He now lives in the nurses' day room on the fourth floor of the hospital, which also houses many of those injured by the wave.
Now three weeks old, he is a little boy with a big name. The nurses have called him Wave.
Wave is gorgeous, a feisty little boy, lying in a cot in a room where the nurses are having their lunch and keeping a close eye on him.
"Wave is a good sleeper and he only cries when he wants milk. He's a healthy baby, around three kilos. Everyone here is looking after him," said nurse Wimontip Sukkaen.
Children have been particularly badly hit by the Asian tsunami.
While Wave's loss is terrible, his story is still one of hope as he is assured of the best care and 10 families have stepped forward offering to take him in.
He was left in a bag in the Suantuang National Park three days after the wave struck.
There was a carefully composed note written in Thai on copybook paper, asking the finder to look after the infant.
"I ask you please to look after this baby. I have no money and no way of keeping him. His parents died in the wave at Patong Beach. If you cannot look after him yourself, please find someone who can or take him somewhere safe," said the note.
There are various theories about who wrote the note and about what happened to Wave on the day.
Many believe it was an older sister or brother who may also have been orphaned by the wave.
It is difficult to work out how many Thai children lost their parents in the tsunami, but the current official figure given out by the crisis centre at Phuket Town Hall is 270. Many say that is on the low side.
Phuket has been comparatively lucky, having lost only a few of its children.
In Phangnga, where most of the losses took place, there are many more orphans. At a refugee camp I visited this week, which houses people from the wrecked village of Namkem, there are many orphans.
For older children, the trauma has been immense.
Schools were closed on December 26th but reopened on January 4th, and teachers are grappling with what to tell their students about the disaster.
Pratiep Wongmuang (53), a teacher at Wat Mungkun Wararam primary school in Naiyang Village, gave his last lesson to sixth-class students, who are 12 and 13 years old, on the Friday before the wave struck.
The subject was tsunamis.
"I just wanted to teach them how tsunamis work, how they happen after earthquakes and volcanoes. On the first day back they all gave me a big thumbs-up sign and said: 'Ah, teacher, you can read the future'," said Mr Wongmuang.
Niayang Beach was badly damaged but not as badly as other beaches. The school lies 300 metres back from the waterfront and escaped damage.
But the children are still frightened.
"They are badly affected by the wave, they are worried. We've been trying to teach them that this wave doesn't come often.
"We teach them that if we have a warning system, we may lose our houses but not our lives," said Mr Wongmuang.
Natthaphong Thanthong (13), is one of the students in Mr Wongmuang's class.
He was on the beach when the tide went far, far out just before the tsunami hit. He ran out on to the beach with friends to gather the stranded fish.
"People were saying get away but I just ran anyway.
"Then I ran back to high ground, I'm quick. I'm still very afraid of the wave but I think I'll probably go swimming again.
"Except I need a look-out to make sure the wave is not coming back," says Natthaphong.