The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) will offer more than the traditional financial assistance, trying to help traumatized victims recover from the Bahama’s worst storm in history.
Hurricane Dorian has wiped out entire neighborhoods in the Bahamas and left around 70,000 people without shelter, food or water.
The CDB, based in Barbados, has promised to provide a million dollars in relief funds to the archipelago, as well as mental health and counseling support – in partnership with the Pan American Health Organization – for those affected by the hurricane, a tragic storm partly caused by hastening extreme weather due to climate change.
“Mental health is a new area for (the bank) and it has come out from close work with other countries in the region that have experienced natural disasters,” said the CDB’s president William Warren Smith to the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Smith added that the CDB is also working with the Bahamas government to send a technical team to help rebuild the destroyed neighborhoods.
