Fourteen year old Niranjana Balakrishnan lost her parents in the conflict. She is the only child in the family. She stayed at the Tender Sprouts pre-tsunami location in Mullaithivu coast on December 26, 2004. She was holding her three year old friend Arabi, but lost control and let her go with the wave. She carried Arabi's body from Mullaithivu to Mulliyawalai. Since then she had nightmares about the Tsunami. Tender Sprouts has now moved twelve kilometers inland, in Udayarkattu.

She likes to take care of the younger children in the home

Everybody in the childrens' home is fond of Niranjana.

She drew pictures of the Tsunami soon after it hit, but now she draws pictures of flowers, trees, sunrise, sunset and natural scenery

She says that counselling helped her to forget the bad memories of the Tsunami.

Niranjana says that she wants to become a teacher, teaching Tamil.

She visited the destroyed Tender Sprouts site recently, which was on the Mullaithivu coast when Tsunami hit, with her best friends Krishanthi and Thavamalar and Coordinator Pramila Palaninathan.