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After a long and exhausting journey of 12 days, Irina and her children arrived at a refugee shelter near the western border of Ukraine.
“The howling winds, which scared us to death, leveled all the houses made of light materials in our neighbourhood.”
Until an underwater volcano erupted 65 km away, Maile and his family were getting by.
Mirasol remembers how strong the winds were. For three weeks after the typhoon, they had no access to running water. They also had no electricity for three months.
Tonnex and Daisy’s water woes are the result of Tropical Storm Ana that hit most of Malawi, including the village of Lisanga where they live, in January, 2022.
Up until then, Maria, 74, and Vladimir, 84, had led a quiet life in the city of Mykolaiv in Ukraine.
Bakhtavar Bibi, a 60 year old widow, remembers the day an earthquake struck and destroyed her house.
Tropical storm Ana caused for thousands to be displaced in Malawi. Mary, a 42-year-old single mother, was one of them.
“I felt like there was a voice in my head telling me to run and ask the children to follow me (…).” Wesnotte Simeus, a 32-year-old mother of five, painfully recalls the day she had to leave her house during the earthquake.
Monique Guerrier, a 46-year-old Haitian mother of four clearly remembers the day she had to leave home.
Ema lost her appetite. She felt fearful and overwhelmed. She and her children suffered from anxiety for months after the earthquake in Haiti in August 2021.
Clervil Emilienne was working as a housemaid for a family in the town of Camp Perrin when the earthquake changed her life forever.