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Facebook Starts Safety Check for Nepal Earthquake

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Facebook Safety Check for Nepal Earthquake

Facebook has just launched a safety check service for people affected by the great earthquake in Nepal. If you have family, friends and people who you know in Nepal, you should visit the Facebook page. If you already have a Facebook account, the page is accessible immediately at https://www.facebook.com/safetycheck/nepalearthquake.

As I experience the great earthquake in Japan in 2011, I could not recommend this wonderful service more. In 2011, we experienced mobile network and internet crashed due to heavy traffic. I hope people in Nepal have an access to mobile network to use this service.

 

This morning we activated Safety Check for people affected by the earthquake in Nepal. It’s a simple way to let family…

Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Saturday, 25 April 2015

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Author: Ippei TsurugaIppei Tsuruga is Social Protection Programme Manager for Indonesia at International Labour Organization. He has been managing programmes and providing technical contributions to social security reforms at the country level in Indonesia, Viet Nam and Myanmar, and also contributing to research and knowledge management at the ASEAN regional and global levels. He has been involved in various policy discussions and research activities on unemployment benefit, old-age, invalidity and survivors’ benefits, maternity benefit, sickness benefit, and the extension of social protection to workers in the informal economy. He has worked at the ILO Country Office for Indonesia and Timor-Leste, the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and the Social Protection Department; and JICA Washington D.C. Office, Research Department, Country Office for Kenya, and Africa Department for Kenya, Nigeria and Somalia.

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