This poster highlights the activities undertaken under the CarEsI- Central Asia Region Earthquake safety Initiative, a 3-year (2002-2005) project funded by the U.s. Agency for International Development to promote community-based hazard reduction and disaster mitigation efforts in Almaty, Kazakhstan; Dushanbe, Tajikistan; and Tashkent, Uzbekistan. It focuses on non-structuralsafety measures to be applied at home in case of earthquake.