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3 Oct

Morocco and Turkey’s Tragic Lesson: Disaster Prevention Needs a Stronger Foundation

Friday’s devastating earthquake in Morocco took the country – and world – by surprise. At 6.8 magnitude, it is the strongest earthquake to hit the country since 1900 and has highlighted major weaknesses in the country’s infrastructure, particularly in rural communities. Unfortunately, as we have already seen this year in Turkey and Syria, this devastating […]

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25 Apr

Restoring Hope in Haiti: The Inspiring Story of Consuelo Alzamora and FONTEN’s Mission

Consuelo Alzamora, a 37-year-old Chilean occupational therapist, has dedicated over a decade of her life to rehabilitating physically challenged individuals in rural Haiti.

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9 Oct

Miyamoto People Rock!

Jon Buckley, a 32-year-old project engineer in our San Diego office, used his vacation and paid his own way to volunteer in Haiti for the firm’s nonprofit, Miyamoto Global Disaster Relief.  Jon worked on the retrofit design of the Lycee Nationale de Petion-Ville, a 4,000-student high school that is a serious seismic collapse hazard in […]

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9 Oct

Maggie’s Journal

About a month after landing in Kathmandu to begin my internship with the Miyamoto office in Nepal, I had the chance to go on a true adventure. While only about 60 kilometers northwest of Kathmandu in the Nuwakot district, it’s a journey to reach the Shree Shiladevi Secondary School. The plan was to check on […]

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