Over the last 30 years, the world has lost an estimated $3.8 trillion to natural disasters.
Disasters disproportionately affect the poor, threatening to roll back gains in economic and social wellbeing worldwide: Read why disaster risk management should be a top priority for every country: http://wrld.bg/sAZp30cwJtZ
Disaster risk management a top priority on the international stage this week
How many school children can be endangered by the schools themselves? The answer was over 600,000 in metropolitan Lima alone. In the region, fraught with frequent seismic activity, nearly two-thirds of schools were highly vulnerable to damage by earthquakes. Working with the Peruvian Ministry of Edu…