Text: We cannot eliminate disasters, but we can mitigate risk. We can reduce damage and we can save more lives.
Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary General
Actions: A tree on a hill in a thunderstorm; all the other trees have been felled.
A man arrives with an ax on his shoulder.
He chops the tree down.
The tree falls.
The man runs away to the other side of the hill.
A landslide hurtles down from the top of the hill, catches the chopped tree, drowns a village in mud, reaches a stream.
A woman watches from the other bank, is drowned in mud too.
Parched, cracked earth.
Three huts, a dead buffalo; further back, a woman in a pink dress.
A man tries to pump water into a bucket, gets only a few drops.
Another man, disconsolate, on his doorstep.
A woman carries a bucket to a maize field
where another man pours the last drops of water from a bucket on withered maize.
A skinny she-buffalo - dead buffaloes - a woman walks, carrying a bucket.
A school room: kids sitting, the teacher, standing, carries some books
A crack appears in the wall behind her - kids point and scream.
The teacher drops her books.
School from outside - the "School" sign splits, then falls.
People, panicked, run in the streets of the slum.
Slum houses fall down.
Lights go off in the big modern buildings behind the slum.
A dust cloud hides everything.
Text: since 2000
almost ONE MILLION killed
more than TWO BILLION affected
more than ONE TRILLION dollars lost
TO DISASTERS
but ONLY
1% of international aid money was spent to reduce the impact of disasters
when just 10% would protect development gains
& save
THOUSANDS OF LIVES & BILLIONS OF DOLLARS
Actions: A tree on a hill.
A leaf falls.
A man arrives, carrying an ax.
He chops at the tree.
There are other trees around.
Further down, people are working on an anti-landslide wall.
The tree falls - the man runs away from a thunderstorm, to the other side of the hill.
A landslide is mainly blocked by the wall.
Some rivulets of mud trickle into the village.
A woman is carrying a basket full of vegetables.
Parched, cracked earth.
Three huts, further back, a woman in a pink dress.
A man pumps water into a hose.
In the village, bags labeled "Drought Resistant Seeds". The man on his doorstep looks happy. He's holding a glass of water.
In the maize field, a man is working a watering system fed by the hose shown before.
A woman sprays water on luscious maize plants.
A healthy buffalo, a bag of drought resistant seeds.
Other buffaloes, a teacher carries books.
She enters a classroom.
A crack appears on the wall behind her; children point at it.
School entrance, from outside. The teacher comes out calmly
and directs the children in the evacuation.
View of the city: lots of dust from the earthquake but the school and most houses are still standing.
The dust cloud hides everything.
Text: EVERY 1 dollar spent on preparedness
SAVES 7 dollars in response
ACT NOW
ACT NOW, SAVE LATER - UN OCHA - UNDP