PLANNING

STRATEGY

IMPACT

For general information about survivor-led projects, please contact us. For information from health professionals regarding these types of projects, please contact Dr. Elana Newman, Commission Member, and Dr. Kako Inoue, Commission Member.

Click here to read the Trainer's Manual developed for Haitian Memory. Our goal is to translate this to a general template that can then be adapted by survivors and ethographers to meet the specific needs of disaster-stricken regions worldwide.

Survivors have reported an increased feeling of well-being when allowed and encouraged to become active agents in their own recovery process.

RECOVERY PROJECTS

• Survivor-Centered Truths: Ebola--local knowledge and sharing (Sierra Leone)

• Haitian Memory — response and recovery through survivor-to-survivor interviews 

• Community Radio and Disaster Recovery    — Asia and Africa

• Folk Ritual and Disaster Recovery — the Unotori Kagura dancers of Japan

• Museum Restoration and Material Culture — healing through recovered artefacts 

• Tangshan Earthquake — healing through public memorials

• Emilia Earthquake — survivor-to-survivor narratives and healing

• Civil Conflict in Sierra Leone — child soldiers interview one another

• Political Asylum Narratives — displaced Rwandans share stories

• Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston — the world's first survivor-to-survivor project