During the meeting, the communities,\ntogether with their stakeholders, shared lessons learned and experiences and identified solutions that they\nidentified solutions that they carried out in the past hurricane. The sharing\nserves as a platform for each community to develop its action plan focused on community preparedness and\nfocused on community preparedness and risk mitigation. During\nDuring the development of the action plans, they will have the support and accompaniment of UH Public Health\nof Public Health students from the UPR. The FCPR will consider proposals from\nthese five communities with the potential to provide them with economic support for the implementation of their plans.\nimplementation of their plans. The plans must be implemented within a 12-month period.\nmonths. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The institutions promoting this initiative\nunderstand that, with collective commitment and from the community base, it is possible to promote resilient communities to face future adversities,\nresilient communities can be promoted to face future adversities.\nThis was evidenced by Hurricanes Irma and Maria, in September 2017, when\nnonprofits and community-based organizations became the first rescuers to arrive at the\nfirst responders to reach their communities, successfully providing emergency humanitarian aid.\nemergency humanitarian aid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are convinced that a very powerful strength and resilience\ncommunity emanates a very powerful strength and resilience. We\nIt is up to us to give them a boost so that they can structure their intervention proactively and have the\nproactively and have the resources to do so. This is an opportunity\nfor organizations, schools and committed citizens to articulate their collective response to a future disaster.\ntheir collective response to a future disaster,\u201d mentioned Dr. Nelson I.\nCol\u00f3n Tarrats, executive president of the FCPR. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Participants in the event were:\nResidents of the communities Las Carolinas, in Caguas; La Vega, in Rio Grande;\nTras Talleres, Santurce, in San Juan; Mameyes, in Utuado; and Bucarabones, in Las Mar\u00edas.\nMarias. In addition, the non-profit organizations Plenitud, Brigadas\nBrigadas Salubristas, El Puente-Enlace de Acci\u00f3n Clim\u00e1tica, the Centro de Conservacion del Paisaje, and the\nConservation Center, and the El Otoao (Otoao) Primary Health and Socioeconomic Development\nDevelopment Services Corporation (COSSAO). Also in attendance were university students\nManuel Heredia, Utuado; Katrina Wiegand,\nSanturce; Janet Forestier, Las Mar\u00edas; Celines Acevedo, Las Carolinas; and Yoshimarie M\u00e9ndez, Las Mar\u00edas.\nYoshimarie M\u00e9ndez, La Vega. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn my community we were not prepared.\nPeople kind of fell asleep in that \u2018it comes, it comes, but it never comes.\u2019 When\nWhen it came, it was a tremendous paranoia... If we hadn't had a small saw, we would still be cutting sticks,\nwe would still be cutting sticks. And in our community most of them are\nolder people. Now we are preparing ourselves so that this won't happen again,\u201d shared Madeline\nhappen again,\" shared Madeline M. Figueroa of La Vega, in Rio Grande, during the panel on the\npanel Experiences with Hurricane Mar\u00eda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMary taught us that we are the ones who have to help ourselves.\nthat we have to help ourselves. This mentality of waiting for the\nother to help me, we have to give it up. We have to roll up our sleeves\nand start working,\u201d said Miguel Romero of Las Carolinas,\nin Caguas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Some of the challenges identified by\ncommunities in the aftermath of the hurricanes are related to: road access, communications, potable water, debris\ncommunications, drinking water, debris collection and care for the elderly.\ncare for the elderly. They also identified the following needs: creation of a strategic plan\nplan, space for food and first aid, and access to road cleaning equipment, among others.\naccess to road cleaning equipment, among others. The event also included the participation of a panel of experts\npanel of experts who spoke about lessons learned from an environmental perspective.\nenvironmental perspective. The participants were Dr. Fernando Abru\u00f1a,\nIngrid M. Vil\u00e1 Biaggi, Dr. Elvia Mel\u00e9ndez-Ackerman, and Luis Jorge Rivera Herrera.\nHerrera. \u201cPersonal survival is not enough, it must be communal.\u201d\nstressed Abru\u00f1a. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to the exchange of experiences and knowledge\nand knowledge, participants, guided by a working document, began to identify potential solutions to problems related to natural\npotential solutions to problems related to natural events. The plans are\nplans are expected to be presented during the summer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The forum is held prior to the quarterly meeting of the REL-NEI Board of Directors\nof the REL-NEI Board of Directors, which begins tonight in San Juan. The event will feature Dr. Col\u00f3n Tarrats\nevent will feature Dr. Col\u00f3n Tarrats as the keynote speaker, a participation that will be\nbroadcast today at 7:45 p.m. via FCPR's Facebook Live:\n@FundacionComunitaria. The presentation will have as its theme A conversation about restoration work in Puerto Rico.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cinco comunidades participaron en el foro Puerto Rico Community Preparedness and Resiliency Initiative San Juan, 3 de abril de 2019 \u2013 Cinco comunidades ubicadas en los municipios de Caguas, R\u00edo Grande, San Juan, Utuado y Las Mar\u00edas se transformar\u00e1n en comunidades resilientes ante el embate de futuros desastres naturales mediante el dise\u00f1o y ejecuci\u00f3n de […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[73,158,157],"class_list":["post-5700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comunicados","tag-comunidades","tag-rel-nei","tag-resiliencia"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/fcpr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Panel-sobre-las-experiencias-de-las-comunidades-1024x497.jpg\")
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