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WRMC 2016
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- 18 year old female student
- Day 5 of 10-day home-stay in city of 20,000
- Strong relationship with homestay community
- Language teacher brings Facebook post to your attention
In Sum
- More moving variables, more complex
- Greater distance between stakeholders - instructors, admin, parents, students, communities
- Layers upon layers of cultural depth
1) Contrast domestic and international programming
2) Learn from the challenging experiences of others
3) Develop proactive strategies for
R.M. in international programs
Should we go?
Because you don't have to. . .
OK, it's worth it!
- Communication
- Infrastructure
- Perceived vs actual risk
- Culture
- Greater unknown risks?
Greater unknown risks?
Communication
Nepal
The Data
- April 24 - 7.9 tremor at 11:56am
- Epicenter in Lamjung district at 15 km - shallow
- Frequent, significant aftershocks, including 6.3 on April 26 and second 7.3 quake on May 12
- Infrastructure damage, strain on food and medical resources
Hazards
Earthquake, crisis response
Objective Subjective
Discuss
- Identify 2 variables are present from list of 5
- What resources or info will be helpful in crafting a plan
- What are the 2 most important steps to take right away?
Culture
Infrastructure
Perceived vs. Actual Risk
Important Actions
- Enacted crisis response plan
- Established authority and
responsibility
Conclusion
- Contacted families immediately
- Gathered information
- Maintained important
communication
- Contacted important
resources
- Hone natural disaster preparedness and response
- Understand limitations of emergency evacuation providers
- Practice
- Submitted press release
- Developed plan slowly and deliberately
- Offered mental health support
- Organized re-integration for students
- Established relief fund
Nicaragua
Homestay - social media
Discuss
Resolution
Conclusions
- Moved the student to new home-stay
- Contacted parents - significant challenge
- Sought deeper understanding
- Evaluated risks posed by post
- Cultural norms and nuances of language
- Emergence of social media - uniqueness in homestay context
- Homestay: high risk activity. Why?
- Identify 2 variables present here from list of 5.
- What resources or info will be helpful in crafting a plan?
- What is one important short-term action you will take?
Action Items
- Identify one blind-spot in your systems for supporting international programs based on the lens presented here
- Work to understand the complexities of other cultures and engage your participants in that, even if it is a "wilderness" program
- Find one person this evening from different culture and talk to them about differing perceptions and acceptance of risk
Tower of Babel
Complexities of inter-cultural emergency response
WRMC - 2016
Tim Hare: tim@wheretherebedragons.com
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