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1	India Delhi Earthquake Safety Initiative for Lifeline Buildings
2	The capital city of Delhi pulses with life.
3	Delhi is also threatened by earthquakes.
4	What is GHI doing to help?
5	Through partnership with USAID and local government agencies …
6	GHI is providing technical assistance and mentoring for the seismic assessment and retrofit of five groups of important buildings in Delhi.
7	In the process, GHI is building local Indian capacity to conduct future seismic assessments and retrofits of additional buildings.
8	Project Buildings Undergoing Retrofit
9	Ludlow Castle School is a government school with over 1700 students.
10	Delhi Police Headquarters is also the headquarters of the Public Works Department.
11	Delhi Secretariat houses a number of offices for Government of Delhi leaders.
12	The offices at 5 Sham Nath Marg house the Delhi Disaster Management Authority, the labor department, and a police dispatcher.
13	GTB Hospital provides health care for up to 1500 inpatients and 5500 outpatients daily.
14	The five groups of buildings covered by the project are used by approximately 15,000 people per day. After the retrofits are complete, these people will be safer.
15	Project Activities To Date
16	1^st Peer Review Panel Meeting and Workshops Delhi, May 2005
17	Project participants answer media questions during the roll-out workshop.
18	Peer review panel members conduct a refresher course for local engineers.
19	Project participants visit and visually assess project buildings.
20	2^nd Peer Review Panel Meeting Palo Alto, California, August 2005
21	Meeting participants work out technical issues and review project progress.
22	Project participants visit retrofitted buildings in the San Francisco Bay Area.
23	3^rd Peer Review Panel Meeting Delhi, December 2005
24	Meeting participants discuss project progress.
25	Peer review panel members give talks at professional association meetings in Delhi.
26	Earthquake Preparedness and Mitigation of Nonstructural Hazards
27	A “Duck, Cover, and Hold” drill at Ludlow Castle School.
28	After project activities are complete, local engineers and government officials will be trained to carry out the assessment and retrofit of additional important buildings.
29	International Collaboration Rewarding in many ways…
30	New experiences
31	Friendship
32	And a safer world.
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