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Acknowledgement:
For this assignment, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to Dr. Abu Jafar Md.
Shafiul Alam, course teacher of DMC-303, for letting us conduct a survey on this topic. I
would also like to expand my deepest gratitude to all those who have directly and
indirectly guided us in writing this assignment. I have met many people and was able to
see their perspective of risks in their daily life. I helped me a lot to see risk from their
point of view. Definitely, it will help to work as a successful disaster manager in future
I have enjoyed much during this assignment and learnt a lot watching the problems with
my own eyes. I cordially thank my institute for giving me the opportunity to experience
we can use this knowledge for the general mass, living in disastrous situations. We
cannot ensure their safety if we dont know what risk they possess. This research helped
us with that.
The goal of this study was to define what risks people face in everyday life, what actions
they take for it and what their preferred media for acquiring news of these risks are. I
faced some problems while interviewing the people. Many of them are very confused
about the risks in their daily life. They dont know what to do, and what not to do in these
disastrous situations. So, we interviewed some people from different class, and sort out
their risks.
Introduction:
As a developing country, our economy is unstable than many other countries. People of
different class condition face different types of problems. We face many natural
livelihoods, schools and disruption of life given the countrys geographical vulnerability
to frequent natural disasters. Poor people, in particular, are most vulnerable to disasters
The economy of Bangladesh is posed under threat for various kinds of risks. The
ordinary working people are facing these risks and being incapable of
survey is crucial for identifying the risks that regular people face in their daily life.
A qualitative approach was undertaken for conducting this research. The political
condition posing risks to many people was also a limitation for this study.
Here, I have talked with some people, both male and female, to know how they
think about risks in their daily life. How they get information about these and how
people about commonplace risks. The main source of information was individual
interview. For this, a set of questions were used to write down the responses of
o Objectives of research: To find out and document the risk of the people living
around us Bangladesh.
assignment.
o Study Area: Around the area of Dhaka University campus and Gazipur
During this assignment, I have talked with 5 Male and 5 Female persons. Some of them
are illiterate, some work at home and some are literate. Literacy is a very important
factor for the people living in risk. They can be aware if they have literacy or they dont
Risks:
The illiterate people usually are usually not aware of the risk situations. They dont know
I have found from these interviews that, mostly people living in Dhaka fear about road
accident. They think the roads are unsafe. The traffic rules are not being followed, so
Some of them have fear of getting mugged. So, they think they possess social risk in
their daily lives. The women face lack of security for being woman.
Some people said that they face risk of fire, thunderstorm etc.
Fire presents significant risk to businesses. It can kill or seriously injure employees or
premises may completely disrupt their operations. Many businesses fail to continue
On the other hand, thunder also causes fire and harm people. This is also a risk of
people.
Comparatively poor people fear that if their living source will get hampered because of
any natural disaster. Like: storm, long rain etc. A tea seller said,
I fear if the storm will blow away my shop, because I dont have
any alternative if they are gone
Some of the students said, they face high risk of building collapse. Some structures like
flyovers, which are still half-done, possess great risk to the people living in that area.
Source of information:
People generally get information from social media, news from TV, newspaper, posters
etc. Some get information from previous experiences, some from others victims of these
disasters.
The social media is very popular among the young people. But it has been seen that
they dont completely rely on this media. They have found some fake news and for that
The interviewees said they usually be aware of the situations they know. Their
Some people who arent aware of the risks, they also dont know how to minimize them.
Disaster comes with the path of risks people face in daily life. When people are
vulnerable and are exposed to different risks, it turns into disasters. We can see from
the people of different classes that they possess different levels of risks. With this
learning, we can understand how our works should be.
Every year, we see different news of disastrous situations people face. If these are
assessed properly, then the effects could be lesser. The people should know how to
prepare themselves for future disasters. As disaster experts, we can arrange some
drills, and training sessions about these.
Thus we can help people who are living in risky situations. I this matter we must honour
their perspective of risks in their daily life.