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Amelia Bookstein Kyazze
Amelia Bookstein Kyazze is head of humanitarian policy at Save the Children UK, based in London. A photographer and former anthropologist, she has worked in humanitarian relief for various charities for the past nine years. She has covered countries and crises as diverse as Darfur, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Angola, Indonesia and Democratic Republic of Congo. She recently returned from Vietnam, where she focused on disaster risk reduction work and links with climate change.
thumb for Vietnam 07 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT
Vietnam's children get ready for climate disasters
People take preparation for disasters seriously in Vietnam's Tien Gian province. Everyone gets involved, because the country's so vulnerable to disasters - typhoons, flooding and mudslides.

Local leaders ensure the village's early warning speaker systems work. Plans are in places for hand-held megaphones to warn hamlets with no electricity. Dirt roads and dykes against rising waters are reinforced. Children help draw maps of the village so everyone knows where safe evacuation points are, learning ahead of time so they won't be afraid.

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