The Delicate Challenge of Caring for Mental Health After the Earthquake in Colombia: “An Emergency Does Not End when the Danger Passes”

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Colombia has the enormous challenge of rebuilding the entire infrastructure of the western part of the country in the coming years, hit by the 7.4 magnitude earthquake last week, but it has another equally great challenge on a more intimate level: to rebuild the mental and emotional health of thousands of citizens. “An emergency does not end when the danger passes,” says Jaime Castro, entrepreneur and co-founder of Selia, a digital platform that…