25.3 million people are displaced each year by disasters
Unfathomable death and destruction. That’s what remained after the worst flooding in nearly a century washed through Kerala, on the tropical Malabar Coast. Normally rejuvenated, bright, and lush after summer rainfalls, the state was anything but in 2018. The annual monsoon had wreaked utter havoc on homes, schools, businesses, lives. At first traumatized, survivors quickly became terrified.