| Programmes and appeal 2008-2009
Challenges ahead
Today, life is moving at a faster pace than ever before. And we seem to have less time to
react to new and unforeseen challenges.
In order to be able to deal with what lies ahead, we need to prepare. Increased preparedness
allows us to act most efficiently with whatever limited resources we have available.
In turn, effective preparation has to be based on a sound knowledge of the facts. As the largest
humanitarian organization in the world, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent
Movement is best placed to offer its expertise to help informed choices to be made. Millions
of members and volunteers in our 186 National Societies provide us with timely and accurate
information to assess the humanitarian reality at community level around the world.
Today, looking at both the consensus of global predictions and the data we receive from the
field, there are plenty of reasons to sound a global warning. In Uganda, if someone perceives
an imminent danger, they sound an nduru, a strong warning shout to alert the village to
prepare for danger. Our nduru is this global warning. Yet again, people from the poorest parts
of the world are disproportionately bearing the burden of another set of hazards.
In this chapter:
- Global warning
- Nothing makes more sense than increased preparedness
- Focus on climate change and human vulnerability
- We may no longer be able to rebuild as fast
as new damage is being done
- Maintaining public health structures becomes a challenge
- Global poor swap rural wretchedness
for the human bankruptcy of the slums
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