An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 6 June 2012 entitled, "Twenty Years...".
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 1 June 2012 entitled, "The Annual Sister-In-Law Quilt....".
The Canterbury earthquakes destroyed the Christchurch CBD and caused massive disruption to business across the region. There was an urgent need to support business survival and foster economic recovery. Recover Canterbury is a hub providing seamless support for businesses affected by the earthquakes, giving them easy access to government and commercial expertise in a one-stop shop.
Transcript of Garth's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 16 October 2012 entitled, "This is why God created dads....".
Transcript of Lou's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Summary of oral history interview with Phillippa Jacobs about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.
Transcript of Liz Grant's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 20 September 2012 entitled, "A few snapshots of the residential red-zone....".
A copy of the CanCERN online newsletter published on 14 September 2012
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A new business opportunity. Cooking Lebanese food in a mobile cart in the yard of Revival, a new container bar in Victoria Street".
A story submitted by Anonymous to the QuakeStories website.
Summary of oral history interview with Carol Hides about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.
Summary of oral history interview with Gillian Laing about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.
Transcript of Suzanne Bateup's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Summary of oral history interview with Jane Sutherland-Norton about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Jeremy Stewart of Alice in Videoland holding 'When a City Falls', the film recently released about the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Jeremy Stewart standing in his lice in Videoland store which is just awaiting the cordon to be pushed back so that customers can come calling".
Summary of oral history interview with Rebecca Gordon about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "These bins are used for the secure recovery of business documents. Here it's the Clarendon Tower which is being cleared".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The food caravans that used to operate in the Arts Centre, now travel to several places in the city. Here they are in the quad at Canterbury University with the lunchtime queues".
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/