scholarly journals IMPORTANCE OF SELF-HELP AND MUTUAL ASSISTANCE AMONG MIGRANTS DURING NATURAL DISASTERS

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARIA MAKABENTA IKEDA ◽  
ARLENE GARCES-OZANNE
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Mutual Assistance ◽  
Self Help

Multi-step island formation and repair dispatch reinforced by mutual assistance after natural disasters

2021 ◽  
Vol 126 ◽  
pp. 106572
Author(s):  
Mahdi Bahrami ◽  
Mehdi Vakilian ◽  
Hossein Farzin ◽  
Matti Lehtonen
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Island Formation ◽  
Mutual Assistance

scholarly journals Self-Help Groups and Mutual Assistance: Evidence from Urban Kenya

2012 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 707-733 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel Fafchamps ◽  
Eliana La Ferrara
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Assistance ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Self Help Groups

scholarly journals Self-help and mutual assistance in the aftermath of a tsunami: How individual factors contribute to resolving difficulties

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. e0258325
Author(s):  
Motoaki Sugiura ◽  
Ryo Ishibashi ◽  
Tsuneyuki Abe ◽  
Rui Nouchi ◽  
Akio Honda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Public Assistance ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Individual Factors ◽  
Mutual Assistance ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The Family ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Resolution Processes

Self-aid and mutual assistance among victims are critical for resolving difficulties in the immediate aftermath of a disaster, but individual facilitative factors for such resolution processes are poorly understood. To identify such individual factors in the background (i.e., disaster damage and demographic) and personality domains considering different types of difficulty and resolution, we analyzed survey data collected in the 3-year aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. We first identified major types of difficulty using a cluster analysis of 18 difficulty domains and then explored individual factors that facilitated six types of resolution (self-help, request for help, help from family, help from an acquaintance, help through cooperation, and public assistance) of these difficulty types. We identified general life difficulties and medico-psychological difficulties as two broad types of difficulty; disaster damage contributed to both types, while some personality factors (e.g., neuroticism) exacerbated the latter. Disaster damage hampered self-resolution and forced a reliance on resolution through cooperation or public assistance. On the other hand, some demographic factors, such as being young and living in a three-generation household, facilitated resolution thorough the family. Several personality factors facilitated different types of resolution, primarily of general life difficulties; the problem-solving factor facilitated self-resolution, altruism, or stubbornness resolutions through requests, leadership resolution through acquaintance, and emotion-regulation resolution through public assistance. Our findings are the first to demonstrate the involvement of different individual, particularly personality, factors in survival in the complex social dynamics of this disaster stage. They may contribute to disaster risk mitigation, allowing sophisticated risk evaluation and community resilience building.

scholarly journals Disaster Prevention/Disaster Reduction and Self-help/Mutual Assistance

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
pp. 11_12-11_15
Author(s):  
Takashi ONISHI
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Prevention ◽  
Disaster Reduction ◽  
Mutual Assistance ◽  
Self Help

Self-Help Groups and Organizations

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven P. Segal
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
The Self ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Mutual Assistance ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Informal Groups

Self-help groups facilitate mutual assistance. They offer a vehicle for people with a common problem to gain support and recognition, obtain information on, advocate on behalf of, address issues associated with, and take control of the circumstances that bring about, perpetuate, and provide solutions to their shared concern. Self-help groups may be small informal groups, confined to interactive support for their members, or differentiated and structured multiservice agencies. In the latter case, they are recognized in the self-help community as mutual assistance organizations, as distinct from professionally led organizations, when they are directed and staffed by “self-helpers” and when these self-helpers are well represented as board members and have the right to hire and fire professionals in the organization. Self-help groups and organizations empower members through shared example and modeled success. Spread throughout the world they are a major resource to social workers seeking to help their clients to help themselves.

scholarly journals ARTI PENTING PENDIDIKAN MITIGASI BENCANA DALAM MENGURANGI RESIKO BENCANA

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dradjat Suhardjo
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Forest Fires ◽  
Effective Action ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Disaster Mitigation ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Keywords Education ◽  
And Training

Abstract: The Significance of Disaster Mitigation Education in Reducing Disaster Risks. More than 60% of the areas in our country are threatened by earthquakes, besides tsunamis, volcano eruptions, floods, landslides, forest fires, and biodiversity degradation. This article focuses on the mitigation of such natural disasters, especially earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruption, through the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) program. Up to now, there has been no technology capable of accurately predicting when earthquakes and tsunamis will occur. One effective action to anticipate them is through sustainable education and training programs for children, youths, and adults. The goals of the programs are to provide them with self-help to save their lives, encourage them to participate in the programs, and make the adults initiators in the disaster management. Thus the curriculum should be designed for learning and training to implement the DRR program and should include local wisdom. Keywords: education, mitigation, local wisdom

scholarly journals A Tale of Gotong Royong (Mutual Assistance) and Household’s Participations for Communal Activities in Contemporary Indonesia 2012-2014

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-14
Author(s):  
Aris Rusyiana ◽  
Aan Heriyana
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Preliminary Finding ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
Mutual Assistance ◽  
Disaster Victims ◽  
Joint Activities ◽  
Bivariate Correlation ◽  
Collective Activity

This paper examines inequality of households’ participation in collective and joint activities Indonesia. And, this paper also investigates the role of people’s collective and joint activities, related to norms-related localism, in cross-provinces study in Indonesia nowadays and in which provinces, people’s collective activities and joint activities are relatively highest among all provinces. Data comes from the National Social Economics Survey 2012 and 2014 and Village Potential Census (Podes) in 2011 and 2014 which consists of household participations’ as collective activity and the information of how many villages mostly prone to natural disasters. Drawing Podes 2011 and Podes 2014, these preliminary finding indicates that Indonesia still has varied density of localism cross-provinces in this contemporary communication sciences issue and globalization era. The specific terms of localism promote collective activity which includes mutual assistance (gotong royong). Descriptive statistical records mutual assistance (Gotong Royong) increases in Indonesia in 2014 (90.93 %) among villages cross-provinces from (88.80%) villages that still held it in 2011. Likewise, results from SUSENAS’s descriptive statistics also shows that communal activities in helping people from natural disasters are varied among provinces, as well as in public interest, religious activities and social activities. In another case, results of Pearson Bivariate Correlation show that the natural disasters occurrence associate with the percentage of households which often and always participate in helping natural disaster victims. These preliminary findings indicate the improved phenomena of density of kindness in order to communicate empathy among people, especially during existence of natural disasters. Despites unsignificant intercorrelation between two variables (density of communal services and occurrence of natural disasters), these preliminary findings indicate strengths of the value of mutual aid/mutual assistance/gotong royong in the contemporary of Indonesia. Although the finding shows no significant association between post natural disasters and density of communal activities, these preliminary findings indicate that communal activities may associate with the kindness among people in order to show their mutual self-help in all conditions, not only when natural disasters strikes cross-Indonesian provinces.

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