Emergency Exit (Christian Aid)
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Christian Aid has produced a set of interactive activities for small groups to critically explore the impacts of weather-related disasters in different contexts.
The worksheets and assembly resources use real world examples and images to explore how the impacts of disasters differ and how this relates to pre-existing inequalities. This can be a segway into introducing climate justice.
The Emergency Exit game puts students in the shoes of those affected by a disaster and can help pupils explore the practical and emotional impacts of climate change.
This is how Christian Aid describe the resources:
“These resources challenge pupils to think about disasters and emergencies.
The interactive simulation game, Emergency Exit, shows the devastating impact of a disaster on a community living in poverty.
Participants must plan the evacuation of a flood-hit area in either a particularly poor part of Metro Manila, a region of the Philippines, or the village of Balashighat in Bangladesh.”
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“Christian Aid has this group game called the Emergency Exit game, and that's to get them invested in the whole issue and it's a role play. And you're in this emergency where you have to leave your house. You have to leave everything behind, and you know, what would you take? And then how would you? You lose things as you go, and eventually you're kind of in the evacuation centre. What's more important than material things or lives? Do you know why these things are happening more and more? And then, you know, I always end that particular game with, “Are you willing to live more simply so that others can simply live?” So it's the idea that, you know, how we live affects other people's ability to live at all. The game brings the kind of reality to life. And just getting them to get the information [using the other resources] is important.” Dublin-based post-primary educator