Sentence examples for doing preparedness from inspiring English sources

Here's the truly scary thing about the 8.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Honshu Island and its resulting tsunami: Japan is a country that is lauded for doing preparedness right.

"We have got tremendous support," says Deka. "It was not organised before, but now people are organised and have medicine, shelter and risk teams and are doing preparedness activities beforehand.

"The way we look at Sandy Hook, it wasn't the failure of the school to do preparedness drills but a failure of the facility to be ready," Boyd said.

The studies on the ecology of influenza led in Hong Kong in the 1970s, in which Hong Kong acted as a sentinel post for influenza, indicated that it was possible, for the first time, to do preparedness for flu on the avian level.

We know the slow-moving tsunami is coming, and many of the cities we studied are doing the preparedness planning necessary to find higher ground.

In the run-up to the Oslo education summit in July, Gordon Brown, the UN special envoy on education, is calling on governments to pledge money for something similar: he wants specific donor funding to ensure that agencies can do detailed preparedness planning so that they can swiftly move to offer high-quality education to children displaced by conflict and emergencies.

It's not often that you're attacked by a random stranger, but if/when it does happen preparedness is the key.

(iii) How did reported preparedness for specified areas of practice vary with that experience?

"Handing out a piece of paper with a link to the Centers for Disease Control, or telling nurses just to look at the CDC website - as we have heard some hospitals are doing - is not preparedness," said Bonnie Castillo, a registered nurse and senior official with National Nurses United.

This year's global theme explored what girls and women are doing to promote preparedness in their homes, communities and societies.

"We've been battening down the hatches in the camp and doing as much emergency preparedness as we can," Mr. Penn said.