24 May 2012. File reference: CCL-2012-05-24-IMG_3022 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A sign for a food outlet in Gloucester Street - signs that a wider range of activities are returning to the central city. The food is the kind that demolition workers like".
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".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A Thai restaurant operating out of a caravan and container on Bealey Avenue".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "150 Hereford Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Inside Mans Bakery and Cafe, 138 Hereford Street. The food is still in the cabinets after 16 months".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "152 Hereford Street".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Temporary cafe in Worcester Boulevard".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A Thai restaurant operating out of a caravan and container on Bealey Avenue".
Caption reads: "People brought food to the area and we were grateful. It was a disaster but we were coping. Our house was broken but that didn’t mean we had to be."
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".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The view from the top of Alice in Videoland".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The view from the top of Alice in Videoland towards Poplar Lane, showing how little is left there. Twisted Hop had a 'make safe' status at the time of this picture, now changed to demolish".
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/