A powerful tornado ripped through the market in Haluaghat, Bangladesh, on the Bengali New Year (April 14), leaving death and destruction in its wake. World Vision was there to pick up the pieces.

Muksudul Hasan, a Canadian sponsored child, took shelter under a bed, but suffered injured legs when mud boulders crashed through the walls of his house and rolled over him. His younger brother and sister were found in a nearby cornfield after the tornado passed through. Across town, six-year-old Jahangir Alam was hit by broken glass when the tornado hit their mud-walled thatched hut and flattened it.

In the tornado's wake, World Vision immediately sent out its mobile medical clinic to treat the emergency needs of families like Muksudul's and Jahangir's. Muksudul's father was later transferred to the district hospital for further treatment. And Jahangir, who was terrified by the tornado, is receiving ongoing trauma counselling from World Vision staff to help him deal with his fears and the loss of his grandmother and great-grandmother.