Event Info Art Impact Nepal - A Model for Human Centered Disaster Recovery In 2015 Nepal earthquake killed more than 8,000 people and leaving more than 2,000,000 Nepalese homeless. After the earthquake, Relief 2.0 ran several empowerment workshops in Nepal using art for disaster recovery. The plan was to sell their art to help the recovery process, and to make the initiative sustainable. The plan used a human-centric model focusing on providing the survivors options to rebuild. Robin Low, Co-founder of Relief 2.0 and Civil Innovation Lab will talk about his experience on disaster relief as well as introducing the principle of ‘Never Help; Engage, Enable, Empower and Connect’. Good intentions sometimes yield bad consequences and with regards to disaster relief, many communities will be impacted. Registration for this event has closed. |