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Disaster of Bangladesh Essay

Bangladeshi disaster: What price those ВЈ10 chinos now?

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Primark, BonmarchГ© and Western consumers must take a share of the responsibility for the deaths in the Bangladeshi clothing factory.

By: David Blair

Published By: The Telegraph

Date: 25 Apr 2013

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This article is about the distressing incident which took place in Bangladesh where 228 people died in the fall down of eight storey's Rana Plaza. Rana Plaza had shops, offices and factories crowded with many people. But due to its substandard construction building got collapsed and fell down killing many people. While many of them got trapped and seriously wounded and the Bangladeshi government confirmed a day of national grief.

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On the other hand the Governments of big retailers have to impose certain statutory regulations which will protect their manufacturers/suppliers in countries like Bangladesh. Lastly consumers have to play their role by using the purchasing power to force big retailers to follow a book of rule. I would like to add similar incidents which happened in the factories, commercial and residential buildings of Pakistan. Garment factories in the Pakistani cities of Karachi and Lahore caught fire on 11 September 2012. The fires occurred in a textilefactory in the western part of Karachi and in a shoemaking factory in Lahore. The fires are considered to be the most deadly and worst industrial factory fires in Pakistan's history, killing 257 people and seriously injuring more than 600. The garment factory "Ali Enterprises", which is located in Plot 67, Hub Road, Baldia Town, Karachi, used to export its garments to Europe and the United, and had employed between 1,200 and 1,500 workers. Ali Enterprises manufactured denim, knitted garments, and hosiery, and had capital of between $10 million and $50 million. Workers at Ali Enterprises said they earned between 5,000 and 10,000 rupees ($52 to $104) a month for their labour.

Margalla TowersIslamabad, Pakistan got collapsed in year 2005. All of these incidents usually take place in developing countries due to the negligence of building owners, lack of construction

Natural disaster is one of the major issues that the world is facing now a day. Natural disaster is caused by nature they are difficult to predict when it's going to happen, how to handle it and it's impossible to stop it. Weather is one of the major natural disaster that is going around this year it may include hurricanes, tornadoes and the weather conditions being so cold or so hot. It's very important to be prepared for these kinds of events when they happen especially in the countries that are not prepared for this particular disaster.

Hurricanes over the past years have made landfall in the United States, causing billions of dollars in damage, leading to massive evacuations and leaving devastated cities to rebuild. In the...show more content...

The President met with the resident, state, and national executives to discuss how the affected people could get assistance.

The damage in Houston from the storm caused a lot financial contributions. After a week of the Hurricane caused a huge disaster in the country, organizations had promised more than $157 million in assistance for the victims, and 69 organizations had contributed $1, 000, 000 or more. People from all different level of the society offered their support for the victims through donations. One prominent celebrity who assisted supplement the efforts of the government was Houston Texans defensive lineman J.J. Watt. He assisted raise $37 million before closing his fundraising effort. Moreover, all the living former presidents of the United States joined the course through helping raise money to assist the affected people (Chokshi& Astor, 2017).

Following the damages caused by the storm, the President of the United States on 8th September signed a bill that would set aside emergency finances for the storm relief. The bill comprised approximately $22 billion for FEMA'S calamity aid fund, implying that there was an extra $15 billion. FEMA was given $ 5.03 billion to be provided for the victims and for all the disaster that happened. Moreover, the fund will be reloaded with an extra $6.7 billion in October once the new financial year begins.

The Role of the Media

The media played important role in the pre–disaster management efforts and in the

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