Suggested Activity- Family Profile

Tamara

Based on your research from the previous activities, create a profile of a family who is forced to migrate due to the effects of climate change. This may be based on one of the examples from this module, but should be mostly fictional.

You should include as much detail as possible, using the rainbow model above as a reference point. You should also consider where this family is relocating from, and the impacts that climate change will have had on their health and wellbeing.

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MarkKovic

A family of four with two children ages 5 and 10, with extremely limited access to resources moves from the highlands of the Andes Mountains toward the coastal region of Ecuador to a small fishing community. Despite the impacts of climate change alongside pollution and water contamination, the family moved to get more access to fresh water and life opportunities which no longer exist in a sustainable manner in their family home area due to climate change. The parents are in their thirties and both are able and willing to work to support the family yet the new community welcomes them as fellow citizens yet not so much given their newness to the community which already has limited and stressed resources for the current resident but also an influx of other internally displaced persons from other regions of the country.

Limingc

A family of four, with one son at the age of 13 and a daughter at the age of 10 are living in a one-room house with limited access to resources due to its location being far away from any marketplace within the town. The family is very spiritual which only allows the father to work while the mother takes care of the two children and the home. The father is older, 52 years of age, and has been working a physical labor job on a farm over the past decade. Due to a recent injury that led to a broken right leg, the father is currently unable to return to the farm for work. This leaves the family in a very compromised position fro food and water stability.