Sentences with phrase «vulnerable people at home»

We enable vulnerable people at home and overseas to prepare for and respond to emergencies in their own communities.

Not exact matches

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP)-- Harvey spun deeper into Texas and unloaded extraordinary amounts of rain Saturday after the once - fearsome hurricane crashed into vulnerable homes and businesses along the coastline in a blow that killed at least two people and injured up to 14.

With neither a father at home nor a Father in heaven, young people today are vulnerable — and they know it.

For every internet Margaret there are probably 100 more people at home who believe and spread the same nonsense to vulnerable mothers who don't have the resources on hand to immediately challenge and dispute those assumptions.

The public also need to be more aware of measures to care for people at home who are vulnerable to infection.

Former senior police chief and Lib Dem home affairs spokesperson Brian Paddick said he was shocked by the revelations and is worried that it could put vulnerable people at higher risk of hate crimes.

The new fund — «Warm and Well Cornwall» — targets residents who are in poor health or at risk of ill health, or with underlying health issues, or caring for a vulnerable person or worried about their home being cold or damp.

According to Intel's Genevieve Bell, electricity was initially opposed because some people thought it would make women and children vulnerable in their homes at night

First, I noticed you nobly emphasized the need to reach out to the opposition (and I understand the urgency of that given the volatile polarization of the country), but (as paradoxical as this may seem), please extend your reach to the global sphere as well by prioritizing the poor and the vulnerable not only at home, but everywhere USA leadership has (historically and continuously) contributed to the impoverishment and oppression of ordinary people — let this be driven by an idea of justice based on complicity in harm, not on ethnocentric and depoliticized charity.

Disasters occur when a natural hazard (like a river) floods and people are exposed and vulnerable to it (because they live on the flood plain and their homes» foundation is at ground level, for example).

Upper respiratory viruses and feline distemper (feline panleukopenia virus) are not contagious to people, but can be carried on hands and clothes to potentially vulnerable cats at home.

If people are going to build out in such vulnerable areas, homes need to be built to better withstand fire — or at least to withstand embers.

People's homes are also a place where not just children but all of society is vulnerable — especially the very young, the sick, women and the elderly as they are all at home for most of the time.