Good Monday morning everyone. We hope the week was restful.
We bring you an extract from a Sunday Newsday article with an update from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines where the situation continues to evolve. As the threat of further eruptions from the La Soufriere volcano remains, a new trauma is being seen, particularly among those displaced by the event.
"As St Vincent and the Grenadines enters into its third week of dealing with effects of the eruption of the La Soufriere volcano, the manager of the Buccament Bay Secondary School shelter, Ronen Francis said he doesn’t believe people have fully understood how their lives are going to change.
“I don’t think it has sunk in yet: the reality that they will be at a shelter for three to four months before we can clean up enough for them to go back home, if they have homes to go back to,” 34-year-old Francis told Newsday.
Trinidad and Tobago based Trauma specialist Hanif Benjamin says measures must be put in place to help Vincentians to deal with the stress and shock of how they have been displaced by the eruption of La Soufriere volcano.
Eventually, Benjamin said, they will want to go back into villages, to go back home. “When they realise it’s not the same, that’s when shock and stress will set in. They need to treat with those issues now, preparing them for what it’s to come, because if it is not that will be a different tragedy to deal with. It needs to be addressed now.”
Read the full Newsday article here - https://newsday.co.tt/2021/04/...a-soufriere-volcano/
Please continue to keep the people of the Caribbean in your thoughts and prayers.
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