In Palu, Indonesia, a crisis did not go to waste.
Over four years ago, the area was hit by an earthquake, liquefaction, and tsunami. In the wake of the destruction, humanitarian responders set up spaces specifically for women and children — aiming to ensure reproductive health care continued and that systems were in place to report gender-based violence.
What once were tents have now evolved into community structures. After the humanitarian response ended, one woman offered up her new home as a place where the community can continue to report cases of violence. And the same adolescents that once gathered in tents to process their trauma, now gather at a community center where they dance and sing.
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Sara Jervingsarajerving
Sara Jerving is a Senior Reporter at Devex, where she covers global health. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, VICE News, and Bloomberg News among others. Sara holds a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Lorana Sullivan fellow. She was a finalist for One World Media's Digital Media Award in 2021; a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists in 2018; and she was part of a VICE News Tonight on HBO team that received an Emmy nomination in 2018. She received the Philip Greer Memorial Award from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2014.
