Lessons from Bangladesh’s Community-based Disaster Preparedness

Photo courtesy of BBC With every disaster, the impact seems to edge closer to home. This past weekend, my family and I found ourselves scrambling to help a small group of people stranded in a town near Gampaha, one of the areas worst hit by the floods triggered by Ditwah. They had taken refuge on the first floor of a building – a familiar response in a town that experiences some level of flooding almost every year -assuming it would be sufficient this time as well. On Friday evening, when the water was only about two feet high, one of…

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