Vayeshev
Last year, I visited Haiti with American Jewish World Service (AJWS). We visited displaced persons camps where, years after the 2010 earthquake, thousands of people still live in shelters made from tattered tarps tied to wooden posts. What became clear in the midst of the squalor was that women bore the majority of the responsibility for their households. They and their children were also exposed to tremendous physical danger in the camps—from abuse to sexual violence to rape.
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