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From the 4th to the 29th of May I visited the headquarters of Humedica in Kaufbeuren, Germany. I had the opportunity to complete the coordinator track of the medical team training course and participate in the 40th anniversary celebration of Humedica. Here are some photos from the trip:

From the 26th of March to the 2nd of April I visited the city of Nova Friburgo – RJ, Brazil with a delegation from Humedica in Germany. I participated in several events to commemorate 25 years of Humedica in Brazil.

From the 31st of January and the 13th of February, two of the CERT Brasil instructors and myself participated in a Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) project in the region of Mariana in the state of Minas Gerais. This region had been impacted by a mining residue collapse in 2015 and the recent disaster in the Read More …

Since we had prepared to hold a CERT course which was unable to continue due to a lack of participants, we decided to accept an invitation to hold a CERT course free-of-charge for twenty staff members from the Non-Governmental Organisation Humedica Brazil. The course was held from the 28th to the 30th of January and Read More …

We had planned to hold a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) course in the suburb of Cordoeira, Nova Friburgo – RJ starting on the 22nd of January. However, despite receiving 25 online registrations, only five people turned up for the course. We ran the first two days of the course with help from the newly-formed Read More …

Back in Brazil on a short visit, I arranged to hold a Train the Trainer course for four of the volunteers from CERT Brasil. The course was held from the 18th to 20th of January and the newly-formed instructors will be helping with some CERT training and courses that we will be holding here in Read More …