Competency Guidelines: Sheltering & Mass Care for Buddhists

National Disaster Interfaiths Network

January 1, 2012

These guidelines are provided to inform cultural competency and reasonable religious accommodation mandates for U.S. Mass Care providers, and to assist staff and volunteers in competently meeting the needs of Buddhists during disaster response or recovery operations—whether at a government or private shelter, or a shelter in a Buddhist temple or any other house of worship.

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