Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation Peace Corps Form

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it's becoming fairly predictable that almost every community in the world is going to experience some sort of a disaster at some point the key is to recognize that basic fact and prepare for it by investing in preparedness including mitigation adaptation what you are is helping your community to do better in the event that a disaster happens and to be stronger and more resilient and in terms of how fast they can recover and to build back better instead of just building back funds that actually may go the furthest in terms of helping to relieve you know the situation after a disaster or the funds that were invested uh in the beginning before a disaster ever happens to increase the resilience of a community to make sure that it has um preparedness plan in place and then to ensure that it has a recovery strategy for example in 2013 um about 50 % uh a little over 50% of the response was focused on immediate relief and recovery and uh you know in the future we hope to see that the ratio of