But our attempt to tell the life stories of every single person who died in Grenfell Tower required something different: compassion, patience, an ability to instil trust, an understanding that, with some requests for interview, “no” really does mean “no”. The challenge was that, to do the job properly, we wanted to talk to the people who knew the victims best. Amazingly, in a world addicted to oversharing, there are several Grenfell victims with no digital footprint at all, utterly private individuals who led their lives as far away from the limelight as it’s possible to get. Hanan Wahabi, who lived on Grenfell Tower’s 9th floor, escaped from the burning building with her husband, son and daughter. Susanna Rustin adds: Lots of people were desperately upset by Grenfell, and wanted to help.

Source: The Guardian May 18, 2018 13:34 UTC