Ms. Nguyen’s shop sits on the edge of the small rice farming community of Truong Dinh along the banks of the estuarine Cu Đ ê River in the district of Hòa Liên. The town is one Da Nang’s many
coastal communities in Mid-Central Vietnam.

Nguyen, 45 years old, has lived and farmed along the Cu Đê River her entire life. Flash floods, destructive coastal storms with high winds and inundation jeopardize Nguyen and her neighbour’s livelihoods as the natural disasters leave little room to compromise. She frequently looses
her rice crop and often her community shop is inundated for weeks, depending on the strength of the storm that sweeps through.