Roger and Jeanette have been married 15 years, but they now look like a couple of newlyweds.
They live in a tent outside their house because they are still too scared to live inside.
While Jeanette is recovering from the injuries she received in the earthquake on January 12, Roger is just very glad that she is alive at all.
“I feel happy because she is there, she is alive,” says Roger. “She has some pain, but she’s alive.”
For six days after the earthquake struck, Roger waited while the diggers cleared away the rubble of the bank where his wife worked. He refused to believe she has been killed. And then from beneath the rubble he heard her voice.
The rescue operation went on into the night until – after a week of desperate worry – Jeanette’s face appeared in the darkness. She remained trapped because her hand had been pinned by a falling beam.
She eventually came out singing after rescuers managed to free her entirely.
Back at home, Jeanette is philosophical about her extraordinary story of survival.
“If you do good, you receive good. If you do bad, you receive bad,” she explains. “This is the law.”
On the operating table it became clear that Jeanette would lose the use of her left hand. The damage to it was so extensive that doctors would have replaced the hand with a prosthetic - if one had been available.
“Whatever she is, I love her,” says Roger. “Fortunately she has two eyes to see me and look at me.”
“He is my babe and I am his,” responds Jeanette.
Together they are a great love story and a shred of hope in a land of despair.
3 News / ITV