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AKDN | Disaster Preparedness and Response

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Our community-managed weather monitoring posts provide early warning of disasters in over 600 avalanche-prone settlements.

Fostering disaster resilience

Helping communities to monitor and manage the multiple hazards they face, prepare and respond in case of disaster, and build back better.

… the effectiveness of AKU’s response to this highly complex human disaster [2005 earthquake in Pakistan] was materially increased because the University is part of the Aga Khan Development Network. The Aga Khan Health Service had for several decades been studying and working with mountain people and villages; the Aga Khan Building and Planning Service was able to share its methodology for constructing temporary shelter and seismic-resistant construction; and the Aga Khan Foundation helicopters provided the transportation of materials and evacuation of serious casualties.

His Highness the Aga Khan
Karachi, December 2005

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