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Tomás Ayuso/IRIN
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Kadija, a Carib infant born only days before Maria struck, softly wakes on her makeshift crib at a displaced people shelter in the indigenous Kalinago Territories. Her mother, Francelea, remembers holding on to the newborn when Maria tore the roof from her wood plank shack. She prayed for the storm to go away and spare them, until it did. The single mother is now building another shack over the remains of the old one, looking forward to start a new life after Maria. With her little one’s future as a guiding light through the aftermath
- Credits Tomás Ayuso/IRIN
- Themes Environment and Disasters Climate change
- Regions Americas Dominica