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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 …

Today I received the wonderful news that I have been awarded the 2018 Graduate Student Scholarship by the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM). Not only will this be a much appreciated help with this semester’s fees for the Master of Emergency Management degree that I am working towards, but I also consider it to Read More …

I spent from the 11th to the 20th of August with Iris Relief in Guatemala where I held a three-day CERT Train-the-Trainer course for six CERT volunteers from Belize and Guatemala. I then supervised these instructors as they held a Basic CERT course in Spanish for 48 volunteers from the Casa de Dios church. Once Read More …