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Disasters in Brazil
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Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago, updated 7 hours, 11 minutes ago
Friends,
I received two emails from Margaretha Adiwardana ( meiske@terra.com.br ), our IDR partner in Brazil (please see excerpts below). Any help and support that anyone can provided will be much appreciated:
We are really overloaded now with things to do, it is like two disasters at the same ...
Haiti Update from IDRN First Responders
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Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Here is an audio clip of Jean Kaye Wilson talking about her continued efforts in helping the people of Haiti. Jean Kaye and her husband Don were a part of a medical team that arrived in Haiti about a week after the earthquake and stayed for 10 days.
Haiti Sustainability - Video Interview
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Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Junior Bataille discusses how sustainability must be a central goal of what is done in Haiti as the country is rebuilt.
Haiti Relief Solutions Video Interview
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Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago, updated 4 months, 2 weeks ago
In HISG's interview with one of the key players in our Haiti Relief Effort, Junior Bataille, he describes a method of handling relief so that lasting change can be an option.
Social networking, coordination, communications and vision are central to change.
IDRN Training in Turkey
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Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
We have just completed a Level 1 training event in Antalya, Turkey. We made some great new friends that we trust will be joining the larger Starfish Community as well as help grow the International Disaster Response Network.
If you are interested in IDRN training, please check out http://hisg ...
Disaster Response through the Community
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Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Another part of HISG's interview with Junior Bataille, one of the key players in our Haiti Relief Effort.
Haiti Update from Hope Extended
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Posted 5 months, 1 week ago, updated 5 months, 1 week ago
John Seaman offers an update and some comments about their recent work in Haiti. I hope this will provide others with a little more insight into what's been going on and some "Lessons Learned" for future reference.
Thanks to John and Hope Extended for their work with the IDRN ...
Telling Stats Regarding Earthquake Death Ratios
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Posted 5 months, 1 week ago, updated 5 months, 1 week ago
This excellent article was forwarded to a group of people working on Haiti. It seems like the perfect example of "Lessons Learned" information that we want to encourage people to share within the Starfish Community.
Here's the link to a BBC Article on Death Comparisons between the recent China ...
From Response to Recovery
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Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Following the two earthquakes that hit Padang, Indonesia, HISG worked with Jim Yost to fully immerse in one community, and help it recover in as many aspects as we could. This is a bit different than the instinctive desire to help as many people as possible, but in this
US Haiti Ambassador Report: One Month Later
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Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Below is a video link that is not particularly compelling video, and it's obviously US Government-centric. However, the "one month later" assessments continue and this might be of interest to some as it's not processed through the standard "big media" outlets.
I challenge the Starfish Community people involved ...
