New Zealand's Earthquake Commission (EQC) is the government agency providing natural disaster insurance for homeowners.
MPs from across the House said more needed to be done to prevent famines rather than solely providing aid once disaster had struck.
More recently California-based Mobile Solar freighted 6 units to Japan immediately after the Fukushima disaster, providing communications and battery charges to workers struggling to rebuild.
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NATO's strategy is designed to prevent a repeat of that disaster by providing the Afghan government with adequate security forces and encouraging political reconciliation between it and its enemies.
Primark said it "accepts all its responsibilities in this disaster" and was providing assistance in the region.
The Bank of Japan acted promptly, providing liquidity to prevent a natural disaster from becoming a financial one.
This in turn helped the organization avoid security breaches that would interfere with its work providing medical care to war zones and disaster areas.
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Looking at the scale of disaster in Japan, management declined providing guidance for the next 6 months and the whole year.
It took a natural disaster to awaken government to its true purpose: providing for citizens what no one else can provide.
And they can redistribute resources geographically, providing insurance when one part of the country is hit by disaster or recession and shifting income from rich regions to poor ones.
Obviously I would say -- let me just add, there are aspects of different types of Stafford responses such as the program that SBA has began I think the 10th of May offering low-interest loans and providing loan forgiveness for people that have been hurt as an economic consequence of a disaster.
Increasingly, providing support for runners while others living nearby lack basic comforts was becoming a public-relations disaster.
By giving hope for the future and providing structure and a sense of normalcy, they help to mitigate the effects of conflict, disaster and displacement.
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The report provides little new information on the specific causes of the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig, instead providing a long list of decisions by BP and other companies that it says may have played a role in the disaster.
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Remember, unsolicited donated goods such as used clothing, miscellaneous household items, and mixed or perishable foodstuffs require helping agencies to redirect valuable resources away from providing services to sort, package, transport, warehouse, and distribute items that may not meet the needs of disaster survivors.
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