Photo by Jennifer Middendorf 127
Images, UC QuakeStudies
Punting on the Avon is back operating again. Few signs of the earthquakes are visible in this view of the Worcester Boulevade bridge.
Punting on the Avon is back operating again. Few signs of the earthquakes are visible in this view of the Worcester Boulevade bridge.
A story submitted by Peter Symms to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Sarah van der Burch to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Ian Longhorn to the QuakeStories website.
Transcript of Pamela's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
In 2010 and 2011, Aotearoa New Zealand was hit by a number of major disasters involving loss of human life and severe disruption to social, ecological and economic wellbeing. The Pike River mine explosions were closely followed by a sequence of major earthquakes in Christchurch, seismic events that have permanently altered the lives of thousands of people in our third largest city, the closure of the central business district and the effective abandonment of whole residential areas. In early October 2011, the ship, Rena, grounded on a reef off the port of Tauranga and threatened a major oil spill throughout the Bay of Plenty, where local communities with spiritual and cultural connections to the land depend on sea food as well as thrive on tourism. The Council for Social Work Education Aotearoa New Zealand (CSWEANZ), representing all the Schools of Social Work in New Zealand, held a ‘Disaster Curriculum’ day in November 2011, at which social workers and Civil Defence leaders involved in the Christchurch earthquakes, the Rena Disaster, Fiji floods and the Boxing Day tsunami presented their narrative experience of disaster response and recovery. Workshops discussed and identified core elements that participants considered vital to a social work curriculum that would enable social work graduates in a range of community and cultural settings to respond in safe, creative and informed ways. We present our core ideas for a social work disaster curriculum and consider a wide range of educational content based on existing knowledge bases and new content within a disaster framework. http://www.swsd-stockholm-2012.org/