National Geographic
BYNINA STROCHLIC

A few years ago as Ineza Umuhoza Grace watched news footage of families in Rwanda evacuating their flooded homes, a memory surfaced: her mother waking her up at night and dragging her out of the house as torrential rains crashed through the ceiling and water rose from the floor. “I remembered the sense of being powerless,” she says. “And I could not believe that other children could be living that same fear.” (Rwanda is referred to as the “land of a thousand hills.”)

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