“Welcome to Topic 1: Disability and Disaster Risk.
Before we talk about preparedness or youth leadership, we need to understand one important truth:
Disasters affect people differently — not because of their abilities, but because of the barriers around them.
Across Southeast Asia and the Philippines, we live in one of the most hazard-prone regions of the world.
Typhoons, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions — these events are part of our lived reality.
But for many persons with disabilities, the danger doesn’t come mainly from the hazard itself.
It comes from inaccessible systems, missing information, and environments that don’t include everyone.
Today, we will explore how inclusion — or the lack of it — shapes disaster outcomes,
and why understanding disability is the first step to building a resilient community.”