Making a Connection: a Response to the Refugee Crisis
World Maker Faire 2017
September 23rd-24th
How are makers facilitating a sustainable response to the refugee crisis? As open centers for collaboration, creativity, and innovation, maker spaces are becoming a setting for refugees and displaced persons to improve their living situation and positively connect with their host communities.
Sam Bloch
Sam Bloch has devoted the past 13+ years to post-disaster relief globally. As the founder of Communitere, Sam has created an innovative, community-focused disaster response model that diverges radically from the “cookie cutter” methodology of the international community by providing the resources, processes and tools for communities to create their own solutions to their own identified needs.
