Disasters are not preventable if they come from the wrath of God

Abstract

The research was made with children who have been in a natural disaster. OBJECTIVE: Understand the meaning of a natural disaster for neighborhood´s children in Medellin city. METHODOLOGY: Qualitative research with ethnographic approach, using interviews, field diary and social cartography to find de information. RESEARCH FINDINGS: To children a natural disaster is the appearance of God´s anger in a susceptible town. God´s anger y produced by human sins and the suceptibility produced by the home and neighborhood conditions. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: Children know the risk of a natural disaster, but they know these are not preventable because are caused by God´s anger. To develop a prevention program that have the children´s point of view as the main involvement of the environment care.