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From Tuesday the 3rd to Friday the 6th of December I taught a CERT course for twelve participants here in Sri Lanka. As I was teaching in English, the training was translated simultaneously in both the Sinhala and Tamil languages. The course went very well and the participants worked together wonderfully to successfully complete the Read More …
From the 12th to the 21st of August 2019 I had the opportunity to provide and supervise Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training to the Alpha and Omega Foundation in Jakarta, Indonesia, in partnership with Humedica International Aid. During this time we were able to hold a three-day CERT course for twelve participants, a two-day Read More …
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 …