Finding Resilience

Trials test our strength, test our resolve. But we are remarkably resilient. These are the stories of those facing enormous challenges and finding ways forward with grace and growth.

Finding resilience: Para rowers upend notions of ability
For these para rowers, individual effort, athletic prowess, and their teammates’ support propel them to success, despite their disabilities.

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Quiet streets, ghost towns: How Russia is changing Ukraine
Russia’s war of depopulation is worsening Ukraine’s demographic crisis; the population has fallen from 52 million in 1991 to 35 million today.
‘Cold is death.’ For Gazans in flimsy tents, a winter of sorrow and loss.
For Palestinian families forced from their homes by 15 months of war, the temporary shelters they have constructed are no match for Gaza’s winter. Infants are especially vulnerable.
War shut down Sudan’s universities. But its students refused to give up.
Sudan’s civil war has dealt a catastrophic blow to the country’s universities, forcing many students to continue their education abroad.

Overcoming adversity: How the pandemic revealed resilience

When Veronica Quiroga and her fellow students at Fordham University set out to interview Bronx residents about surviving the pandemic, they expected tales of woe. Instead, they found people kept using one particular quality to describe their experiences: resilience. Despite one of the city’s darkest eras in recent memory, the light of community, family, and perseverance shone through in the voices of the Bronx COVID-19 Oral History Project.

Stronger: A PodcastWhat women lost to the pandemic – and how they're winning it back
Over six episodes, we bring you stories from women in Las Vegas, one of the hardest hit economies in the country. Their experiences capture the challenges women have faced as well as their courage, strength, and resilience.

Introducing: Stronger

Through job loss, burnout, and the pressures of caregiving, women are fighting to win back what they’ve lost to COVID-19. This podcast follows six women from Las Vegas, one of the hardest hit economies in the U.S. Their stories capture what the pandemic has cost – and what it truly takes to move forward. Hosted by Jessica Mendoza and Samantha Laine Perfas.

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