Different people weather trauma differently. A person with a strong faith may be able to draw on that or a person with a close family that survived the hurricane.

They need people to believe what has happened to them, to listen to them. There's almost a denial that this horrible devastation has happened to these people. It's important for the rest of us to acknowledge what has happened.

[What these refugees of the hurricane need now, she says, is basic services – food, water, safety and medicine. They also need validation.] They need people to believe what has happened to them, to listen to them. There's almost a denial that this horrible devastation has happened to these people, ... It's important for the rest of us to acknowledge what has happened.

[What these refugees of the hurricane need now, she says, is basic services – food, water, safety and medicine. They also need validation.] They need people to believe what has happened to them, to listen to them. There's almost a denial that this horrible devastation has happened to these people, ... It's important for the rest of us to acknowledge what has happened.

We were shocked (van Beek) left, but we had enough faith in each other that we knew we would be successful with whoever coached us. I'd say it's worked out pretty well.

It has rejuvenated my faith in mankind in a big way.