National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal (NSET)
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NSET - SESP
PRE-POSITIONED
EMERGENCY RESCUE STORES (PPERS)
Emergency
Preparedness is a Key Solution !
PPERS
MESSAGE
LET’S
BE PREPARED !!!
LET’S HELP OUR COMMUNITIES TO BE PREPARED !!!
It is a Collection of Different Items
of Light Search and Rescue Collected and Stored in One Place
(a Room or Metallic Container) in Pre Disaster Phase and Kept
in Disaster Safe Location.
PURPOSE
The purpose of PPERS is to provide a reserve
of essential tools and equipment to assist in the immediate
response to a major disaster, such as an earthquake, in the
Kathmandu Valley. PPERS is intended to help those ‘first
responders’ on the ground at the local level to enable
neighbour to rescue neighbour.
WHY PPERS?
To enhance the capability of communities for quickest emergency
response by mobilising local capacities to full effect
• family helping family
• neighbour helping neighbour
• street helping street
• community helping community.