10.12.2009 in by Kimina
I'm back in Bangkok for a fellowship on journalism and trauma for journalists across Australia, as part of the Dart Centre for journalism and trauma. It starts tomorrow so I haven't met the fellows yet but it feels timely what with Samoa, Philippines...
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Tags: PTSD, Samoa, tsunami
10.4.2009 in by Kimina
I put a little YouTube video explaining my decision to donate 100% of the proceeds of the sale of my book to the survivors of the Samoan tsunami. Someone from Samoa has posted a comment saying: "thank you for helping my people." I really want to do t...
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Tags: donate, Samoa, tsunami
10.1.2009 in by Kimina
As I feared the number of people who were killed by yesterday's tsunami is much greater than first reported. The scenes of the devastation to me suggest that thousands are likely dead. The survivors need everything from homes to new livelihoods. I wi...
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09.30.2009 in by Kimina
Almost five years ago a quarter of a million people died because they had no time, knowledge and warning about the dangers of tsunamis. On a remote island in Thailand at the time, I was one of thousands of people who literally lined up along the be...
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Tags: donate, New Zealand, Samoa, tsunami