I Went to Saipan With Child Life Disaster Relief — Here’s What That Actually Means

Final Boarding Call: Flight OOO · Sep 3, 2026 · 42m

This trip was a little different.

I recently spent two weeks in Saipan deploying with Child Life Disaster Relief (CLDR) following Typhoon Sinalaku—not as a tourist, but as part of a team providing play-based support for children and families after a disaster.

In this episode of Final Boarding Call: Flight OOO, I’m taking you behind the scenes of what a CLDR deployment actually looks like: why I went, what our role was, what play has to do with disaster recovery, what daily life on deployment looked like, and some of the moments that stayed with me after coming home.

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