Watermarks from the tsunami can be seen one and a half meter up on the wall inside the nurse student's very modest classrooms. In March the students got a brand new school - this time it's placed on the top of a mountain.

The Norwegian ambassador to Indonesia, Bjørn Blokhus, and the president of the Norwegian Red Cross, Thorvald Stoltenberg, was among the guests when the Norwegian-financed nursing school on the island of Sabang north of Banda Aceh on Sumatra was opened.

More nurses needed - When we came here five months after the tsunami, we got a tip from the Indonesian Red Cross directing us to Sabang to see the destroyed nursing school there, says Olaf Ofstad, Norwegian Red Cross-representative in Indonesia.

The school was still in use, but it was easy to see that it would be impossible to provide good teaching under such conditions.

- In addition, we saw that healthworkers were much needed in the region because so many people had perished in the tsunami, Ofstad explains.

Quality is important The new and better equipped school-building opened officially on March 1, and during the last month students have moved in fully.

- It will be completely different. We are very eager to use all the new equipment, says Asmara Dion, second year student at the school.

The teaching will also be improved. Teachers from the nursing department at the University in Hedmark in Norway are regularly on longer stays to exchange knowledge.

- The job is far from done, we will work to improve the curriculum too, says Olaf Roesset, health-representative from the Norwegian Red Cross.

- A building alone won't educate nurses, he adds.