The Guide aims to assist parents in keeping their family safe from disasters. It is part of a three-book compendium — including one designed for children, and one for teachers. The Student’s Guide is written in comic-book format and contains a number of DRR activities that are connected to those in this Parents’ Guide. There are three parts to the Parents’ Guide: 1) Overview of recent disaster trends, as well as some basic disaster-related information; 2) Ideas on how parents can help make their house, their child’s school and their community safer from and better prepared for disasters; 3) Discussion on how to deal with disasters, including how to deal with the strong emotions that disasters bring up.

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