On the Atlantic coast of Senegal, the historic fishing town of Saint-Louis is slowly disappearing into the sea. Climate change and coastal erosion causes houses, mosques and schools to be swallowed by the salt water.
For Trouw, I wrote a longread about what’s going on in the Northwest of Senegal. To read the story and see some of the photos and videos I shot in Senegal, follow this link.
I have spent almost a week in Saint-Louis to talk to politicians, self-taught climate experts who lost their village to the rising water, school teachers and fishermen (who now are displaced and have to live in a plastic village built by the World Bank).
All can be seen in the trailer I made for the multimedia story, which can be found below. The story will soon be published internationally by other outlets, but if you can read Dutch, you can check it out in Dutch by clicking here: