Dear Mike
You might be interested in the Reaching Women and Children in DIsasters
conference that was held in Miami 4-6 June 2000. The programme, participants
and a summary proceedings is available still on the accompanying website:
http://www.apu.ac.uk/geography/rwcidconference/
I remember that Jonathon Spencer Rose gave a paper on street children. His
contact details are:
Jonathon Spencer Rose
Johns Hopkins University
School of Hygene and Public Health
2107 Commodor Ct.
Odenton, MD 21113 USA
Tel: 410-674-30285
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Regards
Maureen
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Dr Maureen Fordham
Geography Department, Anglia Polytechnic University, East Road, Cambridge
CB1 1PT, UK. Tel: 01223 363271 extension 2177. Fax: 01223 417726. Email:
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Web: www.anglia.ac.uk/geography
Disaster Studies Project: www.anglia.ac.uk/geography/dsp
Gender and Disaster Network: www.anglia.ac.uk/geography/gdn
Disaster & Social Crisis Research Network: www.anglia.ac.uk/geography/d&scrn
Radix - Radical Interpretations of Disaster:
www.anglia.ac.uk/geography/radix
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Sent: 23 November 2001 14:54
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Subject: Children in disasters
Dear all,
I am currently doing some research for ChildHope UK into the state of
street and working children in Central Asia and the South Caucasus. As
part of this I am trying to find any information that relates to the
vulnerability and coping capacity of street and working children to natural
hazards and disasters, as ChildHope is looking to become involved in relief
and development work. Does anyone have knowledge of how child-specific
relief organisations (eg Save the Children) respond to natural hazards and
disasters, with specific respects to children? As far as I am aware most
disaster management plans do not differentiate in such a way.
Also, I have been asked by the Chief Executive of the Employers' Forum on
Disability how disaster managers address the needs of people with physical
disabilities. Of particular interest is how warning systems and evacuation
procecures are made accessible to them (i.e. warning sirens are no use to a
deaf person, while people who are colour-blind, and this mainly applies to
men, may not be able to distinguish the level of alert from a traffic light
warning system).
Many thanks & best wishes,
Mike Northcroft
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