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Statistics on humanitarian crises over the past 10 years show an increasing trend of people suffering due to events such as natural disasters (droughts, floods, earthquakes) or military conflicts, some of which develop more quickly and others more slowly. All these shocks involve movements and interventions from individuals, singularly, or through local, central or international governmental or non-governmental organizations, which have in their attention primary aspects such as logistical, administrative or financial ones. Regardless of the group environment, social assistance is a natural way and an altruistic practice that regulates relationships between individuals. Society itself was constituted because of interventions aimed at helping or protecting others. Thus, social work proposes the transition from the occasional, altruistic and biological manifestation to a more efficient professional approach to solving problematic social situations by organizing and clarifying the relationship between theory and intervention practice. Social intervention in a crisis can be based on the localization model, a terminology that has taken shape more and more in the last decade. All community resources that can support overcoming the emergency are activated, social actors, professionals, ensuring logistics, financial support and advocacy.
Keywords: social work, crisis intervention, humanitarian aid, localization
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