A silver lining of an Indonesian earthquake: Better women's services

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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