Flooding and droughts drove them from their homes. Now they’re seeking a safe haven in New York

Flooding and droughts drove them from their homes. Now they’re seeking a safe haven in New York

This article was produced in partnership between Columbia Journalism Investigations and Documented. It was co-published by The Guardian and republished by Floodlight.Gricelda experienced her deciding moment in 2018, when she chose to leave the country where she was born after years of not being able to stop the stormwater from seeping into her mud-wall home in the western highlands near the city of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Drought only added t…