Ep 13 - Resilience Rising Podcast - Tess Elias

What can we learn about resilience from humans displaced in refugee camps? How do humanitarian aid workers cope with their work? What is resilience programming for communities and does it work?

These are all questions I ask Tess Elias on this episode.

Tess spent the best part of a decade working in humanitarian emergency responses, both in refugee settings and in conflict situations, ranging from Afghanistan to Tanzania to Bangladesh. She started out working in medical logistics, and eventually moved into general management for international charities. She also worked for the EU for a year, but realised that even when working for an organisation that controls the purse strings, the system designed to help people in crisis is fundamentally flawed, and there just wasn’t the scope to do what was needed. So she moved back home to the UK, started to deal with the burnout she’d experienced, and now lives in North Wales with her dog, working part time consulting for various humanitarian NGOs, running a lot of mountain miles, and trying to figure out how to spend more time outdoors and less in front of a computer.

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You can find out more about Tess Elias

Instagram: @tessoutdoors_

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