Training Student Leaders in Risk Prevention

This story, told by a GFSC volunteer in Venezuela, Miriam Castillo, exalts the importance of education, the need to create a culture of prevention in risk management and the significance of transforming the warnings and the emergency into coordinated inter-institutional work. Read more...

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The Voluntary Crisis. The Face B of a Disaster

GFSC has done various works with communities affected by several disasters in Chile during the last 10 years. Two of the GFSC volunteers in Chile, Yelmo Duran and Enrique Rabajille give testimony of their work with a community from Cerro La Cruz in Valparaiso, about...

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Earthquake in Ecuador

This is a report of the experience of a group of psychotherapists and facilitators of the Center for Training and Systemic Research – CEFIS, of Ecuador, in training in techniques of prevention and management of vicarious trauma, for rescuers, medical doctors, police, army and debris...

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The Loss of the Source of Work of Alguera Women

This is a story written by María Francia Utard, a GFSC volunteer, about her experience applying the GFSC post-disaster and crisis psychosocial recovery model in Concepción, Chile, after the February 2010 earthquake, with a group of Alguera women. These women earn their living and that...

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