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Regional civil protection training centres received 'Damas' mini-vans from UNICEF to support community outreach interventions to ensure better preparedness and protection of children and their families against disasters...

The members of the National Disaster Management Committee (NDMC) and Department of Disaster Management (DDM) encourage all residents and visitors to be hazard aware and prepared. It is the key to protecting our future...

Con el propósito de formar brigadas de protección en las comunidades, que estén preparadas para enfrentar cualquier evento de origen natural, Cáritas de Venezuela con el apoyo del Gobierno Bolivariano de Guaicaipuro realizó este miércoles un foro sobre la reducción de riesgos...

The Department of Education (DepEd) joined other government and non-government organizations in bringing to national attention the need to reduce risks caused by disasters and provide protection to vulnerable sectors, especially children...

Though China has preliminarily established a tsunami prevention, mitigation and relief system suitable for national circumstances, there are still shortcomings relative to the systems of developed countries such as Japan and the United States...

A community-based approach that involves local people working closely with all adjacent communities in flood prevention may prove to be much more effective in coping with the next flood, according to the Nation...

Droughts cannot be prevented, but they are easily predicted and Kenya has a functioning early warning system. Yet the alarm bells consistently fail to stop droughts degenerating into disasters...

Some 50 million schoolchildren and 15 million coastal residents are exposed to earthquake hazards and rising sea levels and tsunamis, respectively, making the Philippines one of the world's riskiest places...

The United States and Mexico are working together to improve seismic monitoring south of the U.S./Mexican border. International scientific cooperation will save lives and reduce property loses from earthquakes...

Huit organisations non gouvernementales dont Oxfam, Unicef et Plan International ont prôné l’implication des jeunes et enfants dans le combat contre les hécatombes dûes aux catastrophes naturelles à l'occasion de la Journée internationale pour la réduction des risques...