Crisis Hotline

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Crisis Hotline

What if '2012' would have happened in real? What if the tremors knock on your door when you're napping thoughtlessly? What will be your backup plan?

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A Sendai Framework is created which the countries following the Disaster Risk Reduction initiative are instructed to follow. This Sendai Framework reduces the entirety of the pre-disaster risk along with the country’s design policy and legislative frameworks suggesting aims and goals of prevention.

Life is very fragile. We, the earthlings, can neither predict or preclude our deaths, even though there are the helpline numbers of multicolored babajis. Thousands of magical rings or tabeez won’t bless us with immortality. How many times do we imagine ourselves as deathless celestial beings while Netflix and chilling over 'Lucifer'? If not an eternal fortune, at least wings to fly in times of crisis? Alas! These are the unfathomable dreams the human race fantasize in their daydreams and sighs.

But the crises aren’t fictitious. Natural calamities and wildfire hit the coast at the most unexpected hour to wash away the last traces of humanity. The technological advancements have enabled us with an outspread of warnings beforehand so that we can prepare, and be ready with the necessary precautions. And a day, specially dedicated to the training and schooling of such rescue plans is the International Day for Disaster Reduction.

October 13 is designed by the United Nations General Assembly to look closely at the risks haunting our global solidity, and to chart necessary steps to be taken to save ourselves from getting affected severely. A risk-reduction management system is an essential platform to a world where the Avengers won’t arrive mysteriously and save mankind. It’s us who need to learn and adapt.

People around the corner and numerous communities are working to create a safe environment by educating us about the rescue plans for each and every, minor or major, calamity- be it natural or technological. It’s a day to celebrate their constant efforts. Television programs have portrayed a group of volunteers coming to a school and carrying on drills to teach the students the protection techniques, without getting nervous or anxious at the moment of crisis.

UNESCO seized to size a blueprint for all the countries, diverting their focus from post-risk to pre-risk safety management. To create a world minus of the dangers is still an achievement higher than finding life on Mars.

The topic of concern for this year will be “Strengthening Disaster Risk Governance to Manage Disaster Risk”, the Target E of the Sendai Framework for DRR 2015-39- estimating the number of countries that are ready with an exit gate to DRR. It promotes the goal of “good disaster risk governance”- a well planned strategy can squeeze the effects of a disaster.

The citizens are invited to join and contribute by adding hastags of #ItsAllAboutGovernance and #DRRday.

The Directoral General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, has issued a message on this special day, "The mitigation of devastation caused by disasters is therefore a global issue that determines the future, not only of our economies and environmental heritage, but also of humanity. Let us join forces in fight- there is no time to lose"