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Disaster Preparedness Seminar Insights

The author attended a disaster preparedness seminar that provided a reality check about the importance of being aware of calamities, as the author now lives in an area more prone to disasters. The seminar used a slideshow of pictures from past calamities around the Philippines to illustrate this point. It also helped the author understand that while nature causes hazards, human activities can exacerbate disasters, and that we all need to be prepared by knowing what to do before, during, and after emergencies. The seminar was an eye-opening experience that made the author more aware both of personal preparedness and the Philippines' vulnerability to calamities.

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Disaster Preparedness Seminar Insights

The author attended a disaster preparedness seminar that provided a reality check about the importance of being aware of calamities, as the author now lives in an area more prone to disasters. The seminar used a slideshow of pictures from past calamities around the Philippines to illustrate this point. It also helped the author understand that while nature causes hazards, human activities can exacerbate disasters, and that we all need to be prepared by knowing what to do before, during, and after emergencies. The seminar was an eye-opening experience that made the author more aware both of personal preparedness and the Philippines' vulnerability to calamities.

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Calamities and Disaster Preparedness Seminar

A Reaction Paper

Last September 24, 2014 I attended an event in connection with the


CSSP Security Awareness Week entitled: Calamities and Disaster Preparedness
Seminar. At first, I thought that it was just the usual seminar by which I attend
almost every year when I was in high school but in reality it was much more than
that. Being a boy from a province which by the way would never experience
calamities as tremendous as those experienced by Luzon provinces, I realized a
lot of things. From the moment the seminar started; when the speaker presented
a slide show of pictures from different calamities all over the Philippines, I
started to grasp the importance of being aware now that I am in a more calamity
prone area. Before I entered college and when I was still in the province, I always
thought that I was safe therefore; I never took into heart the things that I have
learned in the previous seminars that I have attended but this one though served
as a reality check for me. It also helped to apprehend the idea of how thankful I
am for not being able to experience firsthand, calamities as extreme as the ones
being presented. Another thought that came to mind during the seminar was that
Mother Nature is not the only one to blame for these calamities, but we humans
as well for without the negative effects of certain human nature interactions,
natural hazards wouldnt branch out to disasters as severe as the ones happening
at present.

The seminar certainly served as an eye opener for me for after the
event, I did not only become aware of what to do before, during, and after a
certain calamity but I also became aware of what the Philippines state is today in
terms of being a calamity prone country.

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