Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
When disaster strikes, women are often the first to step up.
In the aftermath of the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake, women organized communal kitchens, safeguarded food, and coordinated distribution based on vulnerability — proving that women’s leadership is essential for disaster resilience.
In this video, María Lorena Alpízar Marín, Disaster Risk Management Consultant from Costa Rica, shares her experience working with the network and the women who kept recovery efforts going in Haiti.
🌍 Disaster risk reduction is stronger when women lead.
#ResilienceForAll #DisasterRiskReduction #WomensLeadership
Learn more on how gender inequality, coupled with the climate and environment crises, is the greatest sustainable development challenge of the present time: undrr.org/implementing-sendai-framework/sendai-framework-action/gender
When disaster strikes, women are often the first to step up.
In the aftermath of the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake, women organized communal kitchens, safeguarded food, and coordinated distribution based on vulnerability — proving that women’s leadership is essential for disaster resilience.
In this video, María Lorena Alpízar Marín, Disaster Risk Management Consultant from Costa Rica, shares her experience working with the network and the women who kept recovery efforts going in Haiti.
🌍 Disaster risk reduction is stronger when women lead.
#ResilienceForAll #DisasterRiskReduction #WomensLeadership
Learn more on how gender inequality, coupled with the climate and environment crises, is the greatest sustainable development challenge of the present time: undrr.org/implementing-sendai-framework/sendai-framework-action/gender
