a year ago, hurricane maria devastated the small island of dominica. volunteers from around the world are helping heal the wounds. reporter: it's said that if christopher columbus were to return to the caribbean, the one island he'd still recognize would be dominica. its unspoiled landscape, thanks to an environmentally friendly approach to tourism, has given dominica the name the nature island. a peaceful place, then? not for these women. their day begins at 5:30 in the morning. maddie: i slept really good. reporter: maddie simmonds, a student from britain, is spending her vacation with a group of international volunteers. maddie: it can sometimes be quite busy. there's one little stove, so everyone is trying to make their eggs and stuff. it's often quite busy. reporter: a little over an hour later. taylor from the u.s. is considered the group's late riser. >> your shoes are wet? maddie: yeah. look i've got this huge hole. reporter: 20 volunteers are helping rebuild a day-care center and a primary school destroyed by hurricane maria in september, 2017

what's gone right because i think is they've been absent pathetic and we were just talking about the dominica of saying how brilliant have been all over the pitch while still got an awful all over the pitch they've already fired their coach a season it's called twit they've concede it's only twenty one goals in the opening nine games they've scored just six and mario gomez has got half of those and he's a thirty three year old and beyond him there's no gold anywhere else in the squad and if your defense is that porous and you're not getting goals then you'll definitely be heading down to the second division and i think they've got a very long slog in store for them until january but hopefully they can bring in some fresh faces yeah well they are still a few months left until of course that comes around in january guys i'd love to be able to talk to you for hours about this book of course we are near the end of the show lots fun still of course former goalkeeper who spent time all over the world thank you as always for joining us and it's very own ed and the cambridge for me and the rest of th

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this is the fourth storm or hurricane in three years that the sit in dominica, as we speak. get the ravages of the 2017 hurricane season, the costliest on record in the caribbean. i season with multiple category five hurricanes in the same year. unprecedented. it cause of the utter devastation of an island that is been inhabited for thousands of years. i refer to barbados, unprecedented. that is with less than one degree of warming. the world is all about the 3° one by the time a child is born today reaches old age. even if the countries the commitments made in first round of the nationally determined contributions. we were lucky in 2017, barbados that is. we were lucky today, but is it fair and is it equitable that the livelihoods of our people are dependent now upon us staying lucky? even if we avoid an extreme weather event, our ports, our hotels, restaurants, our electricity generation station, our main hospital, the main one along with the majority of her other coastal infrastructure are threatened by the insidious and accelerating rate of sea level rise. coral reefs, o