Kids can help after a disaster
Climate Connections

Kids can help after a disaster

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 11, 20261 min

Getting children involved in disaster recovery in age-appropriate ways can help them process their experience. Learn more at https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/

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I'm Dr. Anthony Leiserwitz and this is Climate Connections. When hurricanes or other disasters hit, children are vulnerable, but they are not just passive victims. Many step up to help themselves and their communities.

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Lori Peake of the University of Colorado Boulder studies the impact of disasters on kids. She says when families were in shelters during Hurricane Katrina, The older kids, they sometimes set up sports activities, coloring, they even babysat for

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moms who were having to stand in lines to get the aid. After the storm, many helped gut damaged homes, and some teens got jobs to support their family's recovery financially. And children outside the disaster zone, who learned about it through social media or

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