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“People need to talk” – Church in Fiji focusing on long-term healing of Cyclone Yasa victims December 23, 2020
Flattened: Daku Primary School sign was ripped from its foundations after Cyclone Yasa swept across Fiji.
FIRST responders tending to thousands of displaced Fijians in the aftermath of Cyclone Yasa are focusing their efforts on bringing long-term healing to victims of natural disaster trauma.
Caritas Fiji executive director Agatha Ferei said the Catholic Church’s response to Cyclone Yasa’s devastation, which has left four people including a three-month old boy dead, included offering victims spaces “to just talk”.
“Caritas Fiji’s immediate response was to assess the situations that are out there, respond to the communities that we were able to get notification to right away, but also to provide psychosocial support which we felt was something that was important and often overlooked by a lot of our humanitarian work,” Ms Ferei said.