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The life-changing class teaching Texas kids resilience after Hurricane Harvey [qz.com]

 

Every family that went through Hurricane Harvey has a story. When the storm made landfall in Texas in August 2017, it displaced thousands, killed more than 80 people, and caused damages that are expected to reach more than $150 billion.

Elvia, a mother of two from the Houston neighborhood of Pine Trails, was grateful to get through the hurricane with her family safe and her house intact. But they lost their two cars in the flooding and had to evacuate their neighborhood. Elvia, a detention officer for Harris County who asked that her last name not be included in order to protect her family’s privacy, had to work 32 hours straight and sleep at the jail with the inmates, simply because many of the other guards couldn’t make it into work.

“We were blessed,” she says of herself and her two children, Estevan, 11, and Alissa, age nine. Still, when her kids went back to school and the counselor asked if she’d like to put them through an after-school program called Journey of Hope, designed especially for children who’ve experienced trauma, and run by the international children’s rights nonprofit Save the Children, she immediately accepted. “Events like this always have an impact on your life,” she says, “and I can’t imagine the impact it has on small children.”

[For more on this story by Annabelle Timsit, go to https://qz.com/1371856/the-lif...er-hurricane-harvey/]

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