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3. What are some of the things you like about their program? WMO has been taking action for each of ten programs until now. We especially liked one of their programs called "Disaster Risk Reduction"(DRR) Disaster Risk Reduction is at the core of the mission of WMO. WMO first established its DDR (Disaster Risk Reduction) Program in 2003 in order to strengthen and integrate disaster risk reduction processes related to meteorological. We liked this program because we thought they have the clear goals and we could understand what they are aiming at. Especially we liked the part when they started talking about 'Development, improvement and sustainability of early warning systems, in particular related to scientific and technical infrastructures, systems and capabilities for research, observing, detecting, forecasting and warning. We like the part of the early warning systems because if they do, people will be more alert can be possible for them to escape from the disaster coming.
 * The organization we have found is called "WMO", stands for "World Meteorological Organization." WMO is a specialized agency of United Nations since 1951. 2. What exactly are they doing to try and combat or change your issue? The vision of WMO is to provide world leadership in expertise nd international cooperation in weather, climate, and so on. These are the missions that WMO have set:**=====
 * Promote the establishment and maintenance of systems for the rapid exchange of meteorological and related information.
 * Promote standardization of meteorological and related observations and to ensure the uniform publication of observations and statistics and etc....

4. What are some questions you have about it? We want to ask questions like how many people work for the organization and if you do want to be part of the organization, what do you have to do and what will you need to be a part of it?

5. How could you become involved with this organization or model your action plan after it? Donate money for them to recover from the destroyed places and build houses for people who lost their homes. We would earn this money by doing activities at school like for example having bake sale, selling hand made treats and selling to them at a fair price. Another way to be come involved is to criticize them on parts that we think they could have done a better job so they may heed our advices and improve on the parts and become a much more better organization which all of the people like and trust.

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 * Part 2**

1. What is the organization? American Red Cross

2. What exactly are they doing to try and combat or change your issue? The American Red Cross is where people mobilize to help their neighbors down the street, across the country and around the world in emergencies. The American Red Cross, a humanitarian organization led by volunteers, guided by its Congressional Charter and the Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross Movement, provides relief to victims of disasters and helps people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies.

3. What are some of the things you like about their program? American Red Cross is the organization that has been established in order to help victims of disasters and to make them capable of preparing for the next disaster. We like about this because most of the people there are all volunteering to participate in this. They are not anyone like professional experts but ordinary people like us who volunteer to help these people out of crisis. Red Cross is continuing to provide these lifesaving services like donation and voluntary activities and we think those can possibly be the best solutions that they can come up with to make people's life better.

4.What are some questions you have about it? How much money do they donate? For how long did the Red Cross last for?

5. How could you become involved with this organization or model your action plan after? We three found it is greatly helpful that it makes a lot of attempts to help people. We are thinking to help those people by donating money or volunteering to work. We are all aware of natural disasters like floods, avalanche or hurricanes. We can possibly visit the places around the Central America and try to make their life happier. We are still students but this is our dream and it would be very nice. **
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 * Our NARROWED topic: **

Hurricanes struck the United States! America has always been the target of being victim of hurricanes. Florida is one of the most suffering place located in America and always gets the significant amount of casualties. Hurricane Andrew was the second huge catastrophe that caused massive deaths and injuries in US history. It snatched many lives and everything was awfully damaged in 1992. Houses and buildings were collapsed, broke apart and flowing in brick pieces. Damages that US met was near 25 billion dollars. Natural disasters are still happening near Florida even today and causing many deaths. We have set solution that can be carried out in short term. We can make posters to inform people about this matter and post it on our blogs. Furthermore,

Part Three:

Our topic to this project is "natural disaster prevention and mitigation". We decided to choose this topic in order to learn more about natural disaster and how huge influence this can give to us. I have been greatly affected by two biggest hurricanes that have struck the United States. Hurricane Andrew is the second-most destructive hurricane in the US history. It was one of the largest natural disaster ever recorded in the history. It snatched about 58 lives away. It was mainly responsible for the beginning of this catastrophe. It struck the northeastern Bahamas and southern Florida at homestead in 1992. Damages in United States are estimated to be near 25 billions dollars, making the Andrew the most expensive natural disaster in US. However the hurricane Andrew did not cause any more crisis than the hurricane Mitch. During hurricane Andrew, people were awfully damaged, but not as much as people who suffered from hurricane Mitch. Most people in the central America were farmers who live on crops like bananas in their farmlands. But on the other hand, nearly everyone in the United States have possessed their cars, cell phones, televisions or computers to see undated news and get an early warning. We are highly interested in natural disasters as humans have always been the first targets of being great victims. For those who have suffered from the hurricane Mitch are the most innocent victims who were not ready for the crisis. Profusely, it is the wealth and poverty. Therefore, we would like to look for some solutions for these people who have lost everything from the disastrous happening, like their house and possessions. They would not have the money to get clean water, food, shelter, and even clothes. To obtain all these, they would need the money to afford it but most of the people don't have any was to get money so we should help them earn money by fund raising and after earning enough money, we would send to a organization "Red Cross". Then the organization would send our money to them to help them get what they need right now. We hope by doing this, there would at least be 1 person who can get a place to live.

** Case Study 2 ** Case study and Related Links Information for Wiki 1. What is the specific topic your group decided to focus on? We have decided to give attention and focus on natural disasters and how destructive they can be. We are also researching about some effects that hurricanes may cause. There are numerous organizations that are endeavoring to prevent human casualties. We have found two organizations so far: American Red Cross and WMO(World Meteorological Organization). 3. What exactly are they doing to try and combat or change your issue? American Red Cross is an organization that has been the nation's premier emergency response organization. Red Cross offers neutral humanitarian care for victims of natural crisis, war or any other events that caused massive injuries. Its website(http://www.redcross.org/portal/site/en/menuitem.d8aaecf214c576bf971e4cfe43181aa0/?vgnextoid=92d51a53f1c37110VgnVCM1000003481a10aRCRD&vgnextfmt=default) gives us a lot of useful and helpful information to prepare for events that may occur next time. The website is divided into many columns and one of them is called 'Donate money'. By clicking it, you will see many places that are in need. You may make an selection for donation. We thought it was quite special and different from the other organizations that the American Red Cross has a service that anyone can volunteer to help these people who are on the verge of need. 5. How do you plan to become involved with this organization or model your action plan after it? We have set some action plans like donating money, visiting certain places for help and so on. I found out that SAS also provides a trip for certain students to actually visit some places to build some houses and any other things that should be constructed. Therefore, if I could than I want to be part of the students who are participating in that matter. Related tasks: 2. Make a list of organizations that people can join to get involved in this issue and petitions that people can sign. To me, the American Red Cross can possibly be the best organization that anyone can contribute and take part in. It provided the place for those who want to be the part of helping. The list of organizations: American Red Cross, World Meteorological Organization(WMO).

Hurricane Mitch

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Hurricane Katrina

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Hurricane Andrew

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Hurricane Attacking The Building



Hurricane Katrina

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What Katrina Did



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The Eye Wall Of Hurricane Katrina



msGroup Members: Sally, Kate and Michael Issue: Hurricanes Topic: Natural disaster prevention and mitigation Period: Humanities IK  **Power Point Presentation Outline**  Use this outline to take notes on what you will say during your Power Point and presentation. Remember this is not word for word but bullet points. You can use notecards during your presentation, but you should never read from your Power Point!!!  **Part One:** **Background (opening based on persuasive paragraph and reflection question about your issues in general)**  Slide 1-2_: Why is this issue a global one? What is the main problem?  <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis and floods can often come at the least expected time. Others, such as hurricanes and cyclones are increasing severity and destruction. Typically, the poor are the worst victims they make. People are becoming homeless and losing their lands. Those who are facing hurricanes and not capable of avoiding the catastrophe, they will probably be drown under water. However, those who have been rescued or quickly escaped from the place, they would look for another places to live. Moreover, this might cause over population in a particular area if a lot of people try to move at the same time. <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Slide 3-__: How is this issue affecting the world? <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Natural disasters made a lot of big questions to solve. Agriculture is one of the most serious problems that were touched by hurricanes. By the time when hurricane Katrina occurred in US, it did a lot of damage to that portion of Louisiana’s surgarcane crop that is usually grown in the area of south New Orleans. Furthermore, the areas that were flooded with saltwater will have issues in the future. Too much salt water in the crop is not good for crops to grow. As Katrina continued to come inland, it has some strong winds and heavy rainfalls. Crops in Mississippi delta sustained some damage, particularly cotton. <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Slide ___: What is being done to stop, prevent or fix this issue? <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">In fact, there are not many solutions that have been done to prevent this matter since we can’t stop hurricanes from coming. However, some organizations like American Red Cross have been working on this problem to make people to be rescued safely and offer blood and life supplies donations. Life supplies like food, clean water and clothes are being given, and shelters are offered for refugees who are affected by the storms. Medical treatment is the top most important service to save those who are badly hurt. <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">**Part Two:** **Case Study (the specific area you choose to focus on)** <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Slide_______ Images that help depict (show) your topic. (Write down the image description and what slide it is on- these should be throughout this section): <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Images should show: <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">1. Top three biggest hurricanes in US history <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">2. What are remained after hurricanes passed <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">3. Refugees <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">4. Solutions to deal with (donating, etc.) <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">5. Solutions that have been suggested so far <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Slide ___: Background on your specific area; this should include specific statistics and quotes on your topic. <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">The biggest hurricanes throughout the whole history in United States were hurricane Katrina, Mitch, Andrew and so on. Hurricane Andrew struck Florida and left with the massive damages and messes. People in Florida were greatly injured and most of them could not even come out of flood. Hurricane Andrew was one of the largest that had snatched 58 lives away and remained tragic mess. Damages it caused were nearly 25 billion dollars to repair houses and building that have been collapsed. <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Slide ___: Why did you choose this topic? <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">I chose this topic because I think natural crisis is the biggest life threatening issue in the world today. Some places like Central America has been the target of hurricane Mitch and snatched significant number of people. Furthermore, besides those who got killed, many became homeless as their houses and lands were drowned completely. We are pretty interested in this matter and we think others should be aware of this too. <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Slide ___: Links to You Tubes and/or videos related to your topic. List them here. <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/archives/ndht.php <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">http://www.disaster.qld.gov.au/disasters/mitigation.asp <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/drr/ <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Slide ___: What organization is working on this issue that you chose to focus on? <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">We have found two organizations that are working on this to prevent this issue: <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">1. American Red Cross <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">2. WMO- World Meteorological Organization <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Slide ___: What exactly are they doing to try and combat or change the issue? <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">American Red Cross is an organization that is progressed favorably by volunteers normally. People are volunteering to donate blood and medical treatments for those who are badly injured by hurricanes. Moreover, donating life supplies has also been on a track to give refugees a hand. Clean water and food are being given, and shelter is being found. <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Slide ___: What are some of the things you like about their program? <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">I like their program of donating and supporting the victims of hurricanes. Blood and medical services are probably the most important things they can give <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">**Part Three: Interactive Activity** <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Interactive Activity- This should be related to your case study and involve audience members in order to educate them more on your topic. Describe your activity here and write down any questions you will ask the group. You should have the questions or directions on your power point. <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Slide ___ – Overall Idea <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Our interactive activity would be like: <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">20 different valuables would be written on 20 pieces of papers. Every single page will contain 20 different questions like: my house is drowned and my son is missing, my pregnant wife is swept away by the flood, my arm is crushed when my weight went over my arm. These are something we can have. There will be two cards that will make you the only person who survived like: you have been rescued by Red Cross or you’ve got safely sent out of the town by helicopter right before hurricane broke your house down. <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Slide ____- Directions <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Everyone should be gathered in the middle of the room. Then 2o pieces of papers will be thrown on the ground. Then BANG! Siren will ring like crazy and everyone will take each paper but they cannot open it until they are told to do so. Then they will be told to read what’s in the paper one by one. <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Slide ___- Directions <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">When they are finished reading aloud, we will begin to tell something about hurricanes and people who are becoming homeless or injured. <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Before you proceed to Part Four, you must get your teacher to sign that your interactive activity plan is sufficient. <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Teacher signature: _________________________________________________ <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">**Part Four: Conclusion** <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Slide ___: Why is this important? Why should you care about this and work towards solving this topic? <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> Many people are losing their lives due to a hurricane. These people could have been alive by now if we had a better solution for them to be safe. Do prevent innocent people keep on dying, we should help them. If helping them with the solution is such a high wall for us, we can at least help them with the recovery after the disaster. <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">  <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">  <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">  <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Slide ____: Why should other people do something? <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">We say that we should help them but we don’t actually carry out anything to help them in real life. One person could even help and so many people don’t have shelter, food and clean water to drink, clothes and money. We need to save them from this disastrous happenings. <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Slide ___: Make sure to leave them thinking and inspired to do something themselves! <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> We are going to tell them that last year a tornado almost struck shanghai and will ask them questions such as: "How will you feel?" "How would you react if hurricane nearly overwhelm our school?" <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> ** Part Five: Works Cited ** Make sure to cite all of your sources, including photos. 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Organizations we got info. from: American Red Cross WMO

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