Lethbridge – 23 year old Dani Conroy is put in stressful situations every day, but the Lethbridge 911 dispatcher and paramedic could never have prepared herself for what happened in Nepal. Conroy was on a mission to climb Mount Everest, just one day away from full filling her dream, when disaster struck.
“ We had just made it up to the lodge. We were not trekking or anything, and then all of a sudden the whole building started shaking,” says Conroy.
On video taken on her iPhone, Conroy and her friends could be heard joking about the earthquake. She now admits to being a bit naive as to the magnitude of what happened.
“I was pretty shaken up. It’s something no one thought would happen and just on the scale it happened.”
Now back in Lethbridge, Conroy was asked to speak with a young group of students at the Lethbridge Montessori school about her experience. While the reality of the devastation may not fully resonate in their young minds, they are learning the importance of helping.
“ When some natural disaster happens we want to share it with them. This is the age that they can learn and understand how they can help others and how important it is,” says Zahra Foroud of the Lethbridge Montessori School.
As for Conroy, she is happy to be back home after she and her companions were forced to wait for days before being flown to safety.
“You had hundreds of people trying to catch planes that could hold 12 people. It was very chaotic.”
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