Libyans Band Together to Help However They Can After Flooding Catastrophe

Benghazi/Al-Marj, Libya — ‘My neighbours used farm equipment to save us.’

Along the corridors of a school in the centre of Benghazi, Libya’s second most populous city, children giggle as they explore the newly painted walls and run around refurbished classrooms. Little do they know, this school is their new home.

Inside the al-Laithi school, parents stared in dismay at the few items they had managed to salvage from their homes, which were swept away by the floods that have claimed thousands of…