Welcome to the Immerse In Podcast. I am your host Akshat Chaturvedi. This is the second episode of our podcast series: Stories of Resilience. In this series, I tell you the stories of those who survived the earthquake on January 26, 2001, in India, and used that experience to serve others enduring a humanitarian crisis. 

Today I have a story to tell of a small town software engineer turned international humanitarian worker, Jignesh Shanishchara.

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Stories of Resilience: Jignesh - Shanishchara  Surviving the Earthquake and a Terrorist Attack

Striving to learn and identify the priorities for resilience at a societal level against climate and disaster risks. In this podcast, Immerse In founder Akshat Chaturvedi speaks to Fred Pedroso, a Brazilian national, father of two young boys and World Bank official, and Phil Barutha, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Nebraska and resilient transport consultant at the World Bank, as they explain why it is important to learn stories of disaster survivors while designing resilient infrastructure in Belize.

Storytelling for disaster risk management

Are you ready for a journey of 20 years through the stories of disaster survivors? 
This is a promo for our upcoming podcast series: Stories of Survivors of the 2001 Earthquake which will be released on 26/01/2021. It was on January 26, 2001, a massive calamity that devasted an entire district of India by affecting over a million people. This was an event that generated so many interesting stories of survival. These stories of resilience are exciting, enchanting, scary, and quite inspiring. In the upcoming episodes, you can hear stories of the survivors of the earthquake who not just overcame their own trauma but also became instrumental in helping many other people in distress by working with international aid as well as development organizations.  Please subscribe to our channel to hear more about their stories. We will be sharing more episodes of our podcast on January 26, 2021.

Promo: Stories of Survivors of the 2001 Earthquake

In the first episode of Stories of Resilience, Podcast Akshat shares the story of 2001 Earthquake survivor Viral Dalal who was trapped under his building for 5 days and came out unhurt. You can read his entire story in his book: https://g.co/kgs/18G5QQ

Stories of Resilience: Viral Dalal tells how he was buried alive in his own home

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