内容摘要：Devastation around the Saleh family home is seen through destroyed walls in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Feb. 5 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Devastation around the Saleh family home is seen through destroyed walls in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Feb. 5 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

The latest blows came in recent weeks, with waves destroying another 51 houses and displacing about 300 people in Agavedzi and nearby communities, local officials say.Here are some of their stories.

Afeli Bernice Adzo stands at the entrance of the remains of her father’s 10-unit family home in Avegadzi, Ghana, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)Afeli Bernice Adzo stands at the entrance of the remains of her father’s 10-unit family home in Avegadzi, Ghana, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)The waves usually came in the evening, washing against the walls of the home where Afeli Bernice Adzo and her family slept. Sometimes they would subside for a week, sometimes months or years before hitting them again.

Recently, the walls collapsed and the 10-room home owned by her grandparents — where she was born and raised — was left in shambles, partial walls standing in the sands and much of it swept out to sea. They’ve been sleeping in fuel station nearby, knowing they can be kicked out at any time.Waves lap the beach where remains of Afeli Bernice Adzo’s family home stand after it was destroyed by coastal erosion in Avegadzi, Ghana, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Waves lap the beach where remains of Afeli Bernice Adzo’s family home stand after it was destroyed by coastal erosion in Avegadzi, Ghana, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

“I feel so sad,” said Adzo, adding that the situation affects her mental health, making it difficult to concentrate while at work because she feels “like something terrible will happen to my parents.” Her 9-year-old sister sometimes doesn’t want to go to school. The remains of over 100 people have been exhumed from the cemetery beside the house and reburied elsewhere.“We’re going to be back in this situation of constant turnover,” said Mark Lauritsen, who runs the meatpacking division for the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which represents thousands of Panhandle workers. “That’s assuming you have labor to replace the labor we’re losing.”

Nearly half of workers in the meatpacking industry are thought to be foreign-born. Immigrants have long found work in slaughterhouses, back to at least the late 1800s when multitudes of Europeans — Lithuanians, Sicilians, Russian Jews and others — filled Chicago’s Packingtown neighborhood.The Panhandle plants were originally dominated by Mexicans and Central Americans. They gave way to waves of people fleeing poverty and violence around the world, from

Nicole, a Haitian immigrant who works for a meat processing plant, looks for wild flowers outside her apartment, April 13, 2025, in Dumas, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)Nicole, a Haitian immigrant who works for a meat processing plant, looks for wild flowers outside her apartment, April 13, 2025, in Dumas, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)