Photo Essay: Bangladesh Cyclone Sidr Aid worker diary: Assisting thousands of children affected by Cyclone Sidr Arriving on the scene Tens of thousands of cyclone survivors in Bangladesh – many of them homeless children – remain in critical need of food, water, shelter and medical assistance nearly two weeks after the worst storm of the past decade struck the country's southern coast, killing more than 3,000 people, destroying more than 300,000 homes and closing thousands of schools. Above: Save the Children members take a sea plane down to the coast, and are then motored in a Save the Children zodiac boat into shore after landing on the water. Save the Children was one of few humanitarian agencies with emergency responders positioned in the path of the storm, remote and low-lying areas with poor infrastructure, still recovering from extreme flooding last summer. Prior to the storm, the agency deployed equipment, including zodiac rescue boats, to the impact area.