Do you have a taste for innovative solutions that help people get through crisis, that provide comfort after a storm, or that offer a lifeline to those who might be otherwise left out? If so, you will love these four Recipes for Resilience, and the stories behind them.
A savory blend of roasted nuts, meat and vegetables inside a leafy filo-dough crust. It’s called uzi and it’s a favorite of Houda Al-Fadil, a refugee from Syria who is making her way as a budding chef thanks to training offered by the Turkish Red Crescent.
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Fish with rice and peas from Lovely Reckley, owner of Lovely’s Delights, a small, home-style restaurant that has also served as a culinary and community anchor after Hurricane Dorian slammed into the Bahamian island of Abaco last September.
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Made with goat-cheese, this recipe comes straight from the Hungary’s heartland, where master cheesemaker Molnárné Tomi Tünde oversees a farm and cheese factory that offers a lifeline to marginalised people going through hard economic times.
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A spicey pickled seaweed salad recipe direct from the shores of Ilin island in the Philippines, where the Philippines Red Cross helps seaweed farmers such as Gerlyn and Ronnie Villasino stay afloat after successive tropical storms.
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It’s the stuff of science fiction: machines that make decisions about who and when to kill. Referred to as “autonomous weapons”, they’re already in use to some degree. But as more sophisticated systems are being developed we wanted to an expert in the field about whether such systems comply with international humanitarian law and what it means for humanity to give machines the power over human life and death.
In this episode, we talk with humanitarian communicator Kathy Mueller who produced our first magazine podcast series, The Wildfire Diaries, about massive wildfires in Northern Canada in 2017. We talk about that series, her many international missions, and the big changes in humanitarian communications since she began with the Canadian Red Cross almost 20 years ago.
In this episode, we talk about the power of storytelling to inform and inspire. “Storytelling is a fundamental aspect of human communication,” says our guest Prodip, a volunteer and multi-media storyteller for the Bangladesh Red Crescent. “It inspires us to be a hero of our own community.” We also speak with one such community hero, Dalal al-Taji, a longtime volunteer and advocate for inclusion of people with disabilities in emergencies response. “In disasters. persons with disabilities sometimes get forgotten.”
Have you ever wondered how realistic are action movies when they talk about disasters? We tell you all about it!
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