30th May 2025
Individuals and households are also key contributors to community resilience. If individuals and/ or households are well prepared for a disaster – which could be having three day stock of non-perishable food, having a well equipped first aid kit, having a store of drinking water having a first aid qualification, having windup torches and radios, being proficient at simple carpentry and other repair skills – then the whole community can benefit. And the total can be more than the sum of the parts.