Dear Friends of Resilient Ready,
As we pen this month's newsletter, the floodwaters are starting to recede in New South Wales, but the hard work of recovery is just beginning. This 'one-in-500-year flood' event caught many people by surprise, inundating towns across the Hunter Valley and Mid-North Coast, resulting in a tragic loss of life and the damage and destruction of almost 10,000 properties.
Our thoughts are with our friends and colleagues across the Mid-North Coast especially, those who we have been working with on the recently launched 'Business Beyond Disasters' project.
Many of the first responders in this latest flood event were neighbours with tinnies and tractors, informal and spontaneous volunteers who happened to be in the right place at the right time. These 'next door saviours', as we call them at Resilient Ready, prove themselves to be lifelines time and again in emergencies.
Knowing your neighbours is social capital in action, and knowing where your community gathers in good times and in bad, whether it's the local cafe or the sports club, is the very essence of social infrastructure.
Right now, Resilient Ready Founder Renae Hanvin and disaster recovery expert Professor Daniel Aldrich are travelling around Australia talking to people and communities about how we can find practical ways to embed social capital and social infrastructure into future planning and investments for a safer, more resilient Australia.
If you want to know what's happening in the world of disaster preparedness, tune into our popular podcast, 'Doing Disasters Differently', where we talk to experts across the spectrum of emergency management, resilience and disaster recovery. We release new episodes every fortnight.
Find out how Resilient Ready can work with your organisation or community - reach out and drop us a line.
The Resilient Ready Team.
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