Disaster Management & Strategies Of American Red Cross Assignment

Abstract

and where the American Red Cross comes in in prevention and mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery.

Introduction

Crises and disasters are serious disruptions of the proper and efficient functioning of the community through pervasive and wide spread losses that exceeds the capacity of nations and concerned authorities to address and cope up with them using the available resources sufficiently. A crisis or a disaster might arise as a sudden emergency or on some occasions, it could be slow on the onset. During disasters emanating from man-made and natural hazards or even crises that are triggered by violent conflicts, the immediate imperative of the response and disaster management organizations is to save lives, reduce loss and damage of property, reduce suffering of the victims of the disaster during and after its occurrence, comfort and support the affected communities among other critical areas of focus that are witnessed after the occurrence of a disaster.