Celebrating women who make a difference

At Durham we're proud to be home to incredible women who are making a difference in the world. Their work is helping to tackle global issues such as disaster risk management, water sustainability and environmentally friendly engineering. Empowering women The Empowering Women in Disaster Risk Reduction project, led by Dr Hanna Ruszczyk, has given women in Nepal a voice in protecting their communities. Working in partnership with Nepal's National Society of Earthquake Technology, the project has educated and trained more than 60 women. This helped them put forward their views about challenges facing their neighbourhoods and to choose and manage projects in their local communities. As a result, fire protection measures have been introduced to 80 homes and another 40 homes have been protected against the risk of landslides by improving storm drains and building a retaining wall. Water sustainability Our Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR) is behind the Nepal project.
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