Online course: Psychological First Aid for Migrants, Refugees and Displaced Persons

[louisarogers]

I'm considering taking this. It's offered by a Mexican-US consortium and can be taken in either Spanish or English.

https://www.eiseverywhere.com/website/4743/

[DonJuane]

At $250 for the course, that seems a little high. Wonder why no one offers this from a charitable perspective? I tend to be a shade cynical after so many years of being "over marketed to" but some of these things that come available these days seem more from opportunist entrepreneurs taking advantage of a sad or desperate situation rather than everyone teaming together to help. Calculating that would be 10 (classes) x 3.5 (hrs) or 35 hours of labor for $250 or each student would be paying the instructor $7.14 per hour. With 10 students, that would be $70 per hour paid to institution or 100 students $700 per hour paid, a very lucrative position.

So while it sounds like a very commendable initiative, I may pass on it if not for the money, but for not knowing when I would have the opportunity in lending assistance. Still I would not discourage anyone else from participating and perhaps with the education will be assignment opportunities for certification holders to lend a hand.

It's a horrible thing these refugees are going through. Still after spending a bit of time in Guatemala and Honduras over the past decade I think it is still "all about the money" because if you have the money you can live in a protected neighborhood and not worry about the gang warfare and threats that the poor do. If you have only a little bit of money you live as an elite and a high class citizen who never worries much like the poor people who march thousands of miles to the US have to. Still if left with only inner US city or remote country poor farming communities as dwelling opportunities, I'm wondering how much better off these people will be in the US. One only has to drive through large US cities and remote areas like Alabama to see that the US is not too far behind the living conditions these refugees are trying to escape. The world will continue to deteriorate, however, as long as the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.