For Promotion of People’s Health Heat wave is forecasted to be all time high this year due to abnormally high temperature from El Niño. When humans are exposed to high temperature, they are likely to suffer heatstroke or sunstroke. In order to protect people from the impact of heat wave, Red Cross volunteers are actively conducting hygiene promotion activities. Well aware of t ...
Recognizing the Importance of Afforestation and Water Conservation Afforestation and water conservation are for minimizing the impact of natural disasters like flood and typhoon and protecting people’s lives and their property as well as land from erosion. They are important policy tasks and government priorities and the government is pushing ahead with them with vigour. While the DP ...
Prerequisites for Saving and Protecting Lives The surge of natural disasters in many parts of the world caused by the disaster-prone abnormal weather presents disaster risk management as an important task which permits not a single moment’s delay for all the countries. To prevent natural disasters and improve risk management is for the DPRK government an important undertaking in ensuri ...
What Red Cross Society does for Protection of Ecological Environment The increasingly volatile climate on Earth destroys the ecological environment and gives rise to different types of natural disasters of an unprecedented scale, thus inflicting huge human and material loss in many countries every year. Hence, the adaptation to climate change and mitigation, and the environmental protection ...
To be Fully Prepared for Natural Disasters According to the forecast of Hydro-meteorological Administration, the rainy season is expected to set in the DPRK one month earlier than the average this year due to El Niño. To cope with this, the Red Cross Society of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea(DPRK RCS) is working actively to join national efforts for disaster management ...