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Coursera: How to Help the Victims of the Nepal Earthquakes
In the wake of the Nepalese earthquakes, our university professors who teach disaster relief and humanitarian aid on Coursera have tips on how to extend support: Instructors from the Foundations for Global Health Responders course from the University of Colorado System provide a few key steps for support, raising awareness, and aligning with an organization in a time of need. Financial support is the most important way to help, through a monetary donation. Sending food, clothing, or other supplies are generally not helpful as the expense and logistical challenge exceed the benefits of getting these materials to the people who actually need them. It’s much easier and cheaper for relief agencies to procure goods and services nearby to the relief effort. If you can’t donate, then use your social capital to raise awareness for the humanitarian need—tweet, post, blog, and promote the need for resources for the relief effort, and understand that although mo…