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    The document is about disasters, specifically focusing on earthquakes. It discusses what constitutes a disaster, provides examples of earthquakes in New Zealand and Nepal, and explains factors that influence the human impact of disasters like vulnerability, resilience, and a country's wealth. It also outlines different responses to disasters, including humanitarian response, development, building resilience, and campaigning. The overall document provides information on understanding disasters and how communities and organizations work to respond to and prepare for different types of disasters.

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    The document is about disasters, specifically focusing on earthquakes. It discusses what constitutes a disaster, provides examples of earthquakes in New Zealand and Nepal, and explains factors that influence the human impact of disasters like vulnerability, resilience, and a country's wealth. It also outlines different responses to disasters, including humanitarian response, development, building resilience, and campaigning. The overall document provides information on understanding disasters and how communities and organizations work to respond to and prepare for different types of disasters.

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    Nepal Oxfam

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    of 30

    THE NEPAL

    EARTHQUAKE

    WHAT IS A
    DISASTER?

    WHAT IS A DISASTER?
    You dont bother
    revising and fail
    your exams.

    Your house burns


    down but you are
    fully insured.

    You lose everything in a


    flood. Thousands of
    people in your area are
    affected. Local roads
    and bridges have been
    swept away.
    Page 3

    AN EARTHQUAKE HITS NEW


    ZEALAND
    Who
    helps?

    Page 4

    AN EARTHQUAKE HITS NEW


    ZEALAND
    Who
    helps?

    Page 5

    AN EARTHQUAKE HITS
    NEPAL

    Who
    helps?

    Page 6

    NEPAL
    EARTHQUAKE
    25 April 2015

    WHERE IS NEPAL?
    China

    India

    Page 8

    Page 9

    Page 10

    Page 11

    Page 12

    Page 13

    WHY ARE SOME


    DISASTERS
    WORSE THAN
    OTHERS?

    THERE ARE MANY TYPES OF DISASTER


    Floods
    Weather
    -related

    Droughts
    Weather related

    Storms
    Weather related

    Earthquakes
    Geological
    Page 15

    THE IMPACT OF A DISASTER


    DEPENDS ON
    The vulnerability of people living in a
    disaster area.
    The resilience of the people affected by a
    disaster.
    Whether governments, people and other
    organisations are prepared for a disaster.

    Page 16

    VULNERABILITY

    Carrefour-Feuille, Haiti, before


    the 2010 earthquake
    Page 17

    RESILIENCE

    A grain store in an area of Tanzania


    affected by drought

    Page 18

    BEING PREPARED

    Inside Lebanon
    notEmergency
    going to
    school
    supplies being loaded for
    a flight to Nepal

    Page 19

    THE HUMAN IMPACT OF A


    DISASTER IS INFLUENCED BY...

    London, UK

    Niamey, Niger

    the wealth and resources of a countrys


    government and people.
    Page 20

    Inside
    JordanIMPACT

    THE HUMAN
    OF A
    arriving
    at IS INFLUENCED BY
    DISASTER
    the border

    Rio de Janairo, Brazil

    the degree of inequality within a country.


    Page 21

    RESPONDING TO
    DISASTERS

    RESPONDING TO DISASTERS
    Humanitarian response: meet peoples
    basic needs just after a disaster.
    Development: rebuild following a disaster.
    Building resilience: support people to
    protect themselves against disasters.
    Campaigning: persuade governments to
    do more to support poor people at risk
    from disasters.

    Page 23

    HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE

    Water

    Sanitation
    Page 24

    DEVELOPMENT

    A school in Sri Lanka rebuilt following the


    2004 Tsunami.
    Page 25

    BUILDING RESILIENCE

    A latrine raised above the level of floodwater


    in Bangladesh
    Page 26

    CAMPAIGNING

    Demanding that rich countries take action on


    climate change at an Oxfam Climate Hearing.
    Page 27

    GET INVOLVED

    Get involved

    Page 29

    THANK YOU

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