Traumatic Events Lead to Extraordinary Feats of Resilience
Mosul creeps back to life as ordinary residents take on the grim task of removing the dead.
Disaster response is complex and inundating, and gives governments ample opportunity to fail. When the unthinkable happens, ordinary residents sometimes have to step in to cover government's shortcomings.
NPR reports on the bodies of deceased ISIS fighters, which were left where they fell in the streets of embattled Mosul. In order to help the newly freed city start functioning again, a group of concerned citizens organized to take on the grim task the government couldn't.
