Street swags is an initiative and a design done in 2005 by Jean Madden in order to provide the homeless people with a “survival kit” that will allow them to sleep and live a little better.
The production of swags is done through a well-organized network that operates in different levels. Private and public institutions donate and sponsor the product, prison inmates sew the swags, school students package them up with blankets and hygiene packs and a variety of organizations and groups distribute them. These networks were very useful in the Victorian bushfire disaster in 2002, where hundreds of victims were provided with street swags. This showed the ability that the community had to
A series of linked actions where different levels of participation in a local and national scale takes plays, show us how networks function in a disaster event, generating a quick benefit for those in need and taking a variety of forms (Siembeda, 2005). In the case of the Victorian bushfire, national organizations such as the Salvation Army were linked to more local organizations that produce the desired product for helping the fire victims.
The production of swags is done through a well-organized network that operates in different levels. Private and public institutions donate and sponsor the product, prison inmates sew the swags, school students package them up with blankets and hygiene packs and a variety of organizations and groups distribute them. These networks were very useful in the Victorian bushfire disaster in 2002, where hundreds of victims were provided with street swags. This showed the ability that the community had to
A series of linked actions where different levels of participation in a local and national scale takes plays, show us how networks function in a disaster event, generating a quick benefit for those in need and taking a variety of forms (Siembeda, 2005). In the case of the Victorian bushfire, national organizations such as the Salvation Army were linked to more local organizations that produce the desired product for helping the fire victims.
REFERENCES
Siembieda, William J. (2005) ‘Recovery from Disasters: Challenges for Low-income Communities in the Americas’ in Albrechts, Louis & Mandelbaum, Seymour, J. (ed) The Network Society: a new context for planning. New York:Routledge, pp.197-210
www.streetswags.org
http://www.homelessforums.org/showthread.php?t=3792
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