There Are No Natural Disasters: Rotary's Role in Preparing for and Responding to Disaster Events.
Greetings Rotarians, Thank you for taking the time to read my blog and for your patience. October and November proved to be an intense time for examinations and the beginning of a new course period. For this blog post, I would like to give a more technical reflection on how my studies related to Rotary. I will also share about the great work Rotary is doing around the world. I am studying a Master of Science in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation at Lund University in Sweden. In the past four months, I have met many Rotarians that work in this field. Last term, I finished two courses in Societal Resilience and Risk Management & Assessment (I PASSED, luckily!) Currently, I am taking two courses: Capacity Development and Intro to Disaster Response Management. I want to expand on these two concepts below and why they are important to Rotary. Capacity Development focuses on how we can design, monitor, and evaluate projects that build ca...