• Post-Hurricane Maria: Puerto Rico Will Rise

    This year on the 20th of September, Hurricane Maria hit the island, Puerto Rico. Now almost a month later, the island is still almost entirely without power, gas, medicine, and clean water. Buildings have been leveled to the ground, possessions have been lost, hospitals are running on the last of their emergency electricity and medical resources, and schools are not in session. Vegetation and livestock on the island have been wiped out, which limits the amount of natural resources the people have access to. People are dying of thirst, starvation, and, most recently, leptospirosis, a bacterial disease spread through infected animal's’ urine.

    By Ana Reyes-Rosado • Conn Coll Contributor