She lost her house to the rising sea. Nowhere else feels like home.
6/7/22
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from The Washington Post,
6/5/22:
Four years had gone by since the waves swallowed her home, but there Khady Sene was again, stepping through the rubble. Rocks and sand littered what used to be her room, the room her grandfather built, the room where she was born.
“I even love the smell,” said Sene, 53, lifting her chin to the breeze. “The salty air. The fish. All of it.”
She had known to pack. The United Nations had named this city the most vulnerable to the rising sea in all of Africa. The tide lapped against her doorstep. Yet she struggled to let go, even after the government offered her a new house.
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