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Note there are likely other needs for members of your community not met by the above list. Mobility support, like a wheelchair or crutch, may be one example, as is an oxygen tank and mask for someone with challenged breathing. Pets and their needs will need to be considered also. | Note there are likely other needs for members of your community not met by the above list. Mobility support, like a wheelchair or crutch, may be one example, as is an oxygen tank and mask for someone with challenged breathing. Pets and their needs will need to be considered also. | ||
==== Needs example: Family of 5 ==== | |||
A family of two parents, their two children and their grandmother. | |||
* Parent 1: Migrainer, takes prescription medicines | |||
* Parent 2: Short sighted, glasses and contact lenses | |||
* Grandmother: Arthritic knee, uses crutch. Gluten-intolerant | |||
* Child 1: allergic to bees, needs antihistamine | |||
* Child 2: diabetic, takes insulin | |||
=== Size and weight considerations === | === Size and weight considerations === | ||
Those in the needs list that can be fit into a bag or bags will comprise your local community or family's Go Bag contents. For this reason, the bag chosen should be suitable to meet the size of the contents inside. Backpacks used for camping make a better choice for Go Bags than a suitcase or hand-held bag as they are designed to carry weight on the hips, freeing up the arms. More weight can be carried which may be critical if it is required that you need to walk by food for long periods. Further, such bags have compartments and pockets designed around easy and rapid access to essentials, and as such help you organise your bag around priorities, while also protecting the important and more vulnerable items. The physically strongest and most able in the group should carry the heaviest bags, with the weakest and least able carrying the lightest or none at all. | Those in the needs list that can be fit into a bag or bags will comprise your local community or family's Go Bag contents. For this reason, the bag chosen should be suitable to meet the size of the contents inside. Backpacks used for camping make a better choice for Go Bags than a suitcase or hand-held bag as they are designed to carry weight on the hips, freeing up the arms. More weight can be carried which may be critical if it is required that you need to walk by food for long periods. Further, such bags have compartments and pockets designed around easy and rapid access to essentials, and as such help you organise your bag around priorities, while also protecting the important and more vulnerable items. The physically strongest and most able in the group should carry the heaviest bags with items for the whole group, with the weakest and least able carrying the lightest or none at all. All should carry their own ID and a day's rations of food in the event they are separated from the group. | ||
=== Protecting contents === | === Protecting contents === | ||
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Another contingency to consider is that the whole back is stolen. For this reason critical items like identity papers, cash and medicines can be best stored on the body itself, rather than inside the backpack. A water resistant 'money belt' that sits under clothing can mitigate for such a situation. | Another contingency to consider is that the whole back is stolen. For this reason critical items like identity papers, cash and medicines can be best stored on the body itself, rather than inside the backpack. A water resistant 'money belt' that sits under clothing can mitigate for such a situation. | ||