These are a section of comments made by children directly
affected by the storm. As part of the support process, a number of children
were invited to share their thoughts and feelings with words or pictures.
They are reproduced here with permission.
For my dear friend Josué,
My friend, I miss you. Why did you have to go and leave me here
alone? I wish you hadn’t gone, but now nobody can do anything
for you. You have left me but I want to tell you that I’m
never going to forget you in my whole life. I’ll always remember
you by day and by night. Goodbye my friend. I won’t see you
later.
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I
am so sorry about my friend who died when the landslide
came and she died there, and I remember when we
played together in school and we talked and laughed.
When we left class we walked home together and
that’s why I think of her so much.
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The memory that my friend
left me is of when she
and I played together and
we talked about the games
we were making up, and
I felt really bad when
I saw that my friend was
dead. She was caught in
the current of water, and
now we can’t go back
and play. When the morning
came she didn’t wake
up. The current of water
made her die.
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