Children aren't liabilities in disasters – they can help, if we let them
- Written by Christine Eriksen, Senior Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research, University of Wollongong
Picture painted by a primary school child in Sri Lanka after the tsunami in 2005UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Our world is becoming increasingly vulnerable to fire, flood and other natural hazards. While our instinct as adults may be to shield children from these possibilities, this does them a real disservice.
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