[What these refugees of the hurricane need now, she says, is basic services – food, water, safety and medicine. They also need validation.] They need people to believe what has happened to them, to listen to them. There's almost a denial that this horrible devastation has happened to these people, ... It's important for the rest of us to acknowledge what has happened. |
[What these refugees of the hurricane need now, she says, is basic services – food, water, safety and medicine. They also need validation.] They need people to believe what has happened to them, to listen to them. There's almost a denial that this horrible devastation has happened to these people, ... It's important for the rest of us to acknowledge what has happened. |
Different people weather trauma differently. A person with a strong faith may be able to draw on that or a person with a close family that survived the hurricane. |
They need people to believe what has happened to them, to listen to them. There's almost a denial that this horrible devastation has happened to these people. It's important for the rest of us to acknowledge what has happened. |