She says used to try and make a living. Which used to be a shop owner has allowed her to live here every corner has its use one part of the kitchen the other corner is the bathroom. And it jason to that is the sleeping area. Im forced to sell used clothes in this makeshift house you can see behind me some of these that i have stored and other clothes are put on display just outside my doorstep. Its hard being a widow she says because she cannot afford rent or proper education for her daughter roger is among 7000000. 00 iraqis who live in poverty which means they can only spend less than 2. 00 per day and like roger many live without basic services then why are you telling me tap water is scarce sometimes i have to fill buckets to store some water when its cut off for a day or 2 state and across city goes on for 4 or 5 hours a day and its the same for water. Years of war and fighting has meant essential services are either very poor or nonexistent in many places iraq faces a major elect
Months ignoring the governments call to relocate. Instead they worked on strengthening whats known as a network a Community Run Early Warning system. They collected money to buy a monitoring device. This equipment warns is going to becoming active very transmitters in the mountain that. Youve made up piece called it makes a steady sound if its. Then we were in people using walkie talkies so they dont panic. Theres also a Radio Service on. The last updates everyone on the volcanoes status. This Lookout Point is part of the Warning System there are several of these in each village built using Community Funds from these vantage points villages take turns to Monitor Mount merapi for activity volcanoes are not the only natural disasters that threaten indonesia earthquakes and tsunamis are also common but less predictable. We can never be 100 percent prepared what we can do is make today better than yesterday and tomorrow better than today the. Disaster officials have long given up trying to
Are here in person with us. Its israel in rockville, maryland. And to those of you numbering at least 500 who were with on zoom, youve joined us from all over the country. Our normal lectures have about 30 states represented, several canadian provinces and people scattered the rest of the world. I also want to welcome the cspan cameras covering a haberman for the first time. For those of you who are new to haberman, a few things about us. For the past 40 years, weve sponsored programs chosen to provide adults with encounters with jewish thought history and culture before covid changed everything. Our programs were inperson and our parties events all from the washington, d. C. Metropolitan area. Today our reach is much broader through zoom. You can learn more about it on the are looking at website. Easy to remember haberman institute dot org. This is our last program for 2022 but we have three major lectures scheduled already for january of next. One by dr. Jeremy englund, georgia tech.
Youve joined us from all over the country. Our normal lectures have about 30 states represented, several canadian provinces and people scattered the rest of the world. I also want to welcome the cspan cameras covering a haberman for the first time. For those of you who are new to haberman, a few things about us. For the past 40 years, weve sponsored programs chosen to provide adults with encounters with jewish thought history and culture before covid changed everything. Our programs were inperson and our parties events all from the washington, d. C. Metropolitan area. Today our reach is much broader through zoom. You can learn more about it on the are looking at website. Easy to remember haberman institute dot org. This is our last program for 2022 but we have three major lectures scheduled already for january of next. One by dr. Jeremy englund, georgia tech. One by Georgetown Professor Audrey Soltis and one by dr. Arias supported network of Bengurion University of the negev. You can l
Good evening. My name is arthur hessel. Im Vice President of the haberman institute for jewish studies. I want to welcome those you who are here in person with us. Its israel in rockville, maryland. And to those of you numbering at least 500 who were with on zoom, youve joined us from all over the country. Our normal lectures have about 30 states represented, several canadian provinces and people scattered the rest of the world. I also want to welcome the cspan cameras covering a haberman for the first time. For those of you who are new to haberman, a few things about us. For the past 40 years, weve sponsored programs chosen to provide adults with encounters with jewish thought history and culture before covid changed everything. Our programs were inperson and our parties events all from the washington, d. C. Metropolitan area. Today our reach is much broader through zoom. You can learn more about it on the are looking at website. Easy to remember haberman institute dot org. This is ou