Recent graduate puts global education into practice after Spain's deadly floods
November 20, 2024
November 20, 2024
BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Nov. 20 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news:
When catastrophic flooding hit the Valencia region of Spain in October, alumna Erin Kaplan '23 found herself at the intersection of crisis and community.
As an English teacher at a high school in Aldaia, a town of about 31,000 people just outside Valencia, Kaplan witnessed the devastating impact of what meteorologists described as the equivalent of a year's worth of rainfall in a single day.
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When catastrophic flooding hit the Valencia region of Spain in October, alumna Erin Kaplan '23 found herself at the intersection of crisis and community.
As an English teacher at a high school in Aldaia, a town of about 31,000 people just outside Valencia, Kaplan witnessed the devastating impact of what meteorologists described as the equivalent of a year's worth of rainfall in a single day.
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