Earth Crisis Forum 5: Surviving an Apocalyptic Climate Change Event

Kathy Egan is the mother of four adult children, all of them working in the healthcare or health education sector, plus grandmother to six grandchildren. Her long career in the caring sector includes nursing, working as a relationships counsellor and leading a social service agency. Now retired, Kathy remains connected to her community as president of her local conference of the Society of St Vincent de Paul, and through this helped many victims of the cyclone. Kathy is the recipient of a Napier City award and a Queen’s Service Medal for community work. Kathy is a long-time meditator, leads two weekly Christian meditation groups and is a WCCM oblate.

Margaret von Hartitzch has worked in the healthcare sector, in childcare and as a chaplain at Catholic high schools in the Hawkes Bay. Margaret, and her husband Trevor’s house, was damaged by floodwaters during Cyclone Gabrielle. This had been Trevor’s home for 70-years and where they celebrated milestone occasions with their blended family of nine children plus grandchildren and their first great-grand child.