Europe is calling on to bring Survival Kit into the house: « We mainly want to create a mentality of readiness »
Last year it recommended National Crisis Center Already to put together an emergency package and to be prepared for a crisis situation. Many have already done that in the meantime, for example, they notice at ‘t American in Belsele where the demand for emergency packages increased exponentially. Our country followed the example of, among other things, some Scandinavian countries that came first. Now Europe is also launching a similar call and European Commissioner Hadja Lahbib (MR) posted a video on social media in which she shows what to do in it.
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Ideally, you provide water, canned food or freeze, lighting, identity papers in a waterproof bag, cash money, a lighter or matches, a Swiss pocket knife, medication and an emergency radio, according to Lahbib.
Among other things, the National Crisis Center added a basic pharmacy for first aid: bandage, plasters, compresses, scissors, tweezers, safety pins, painkillers, disinfectants, … but you can go as far as you want, of course. Fish wire and hooks, for example, for when you are totally dependent on yourself. And a game of cards or other party game every time the dead.
But what does that cost me to put together a package? At Bol.com you can buy a survival kit from 129.95 euros. It American in Belsele Offers ready-made prepper packages for 230 to 280 euros. You can buy an emergency radio for 30 euros to 135 euros, depending on what you want. Only, you have to be there quickly because a new load comes in, it is just as quickly out of the house.
Leo Vanhooff, manager of the website be-predarde.bethe call from Europe certainly thinks a good idea. But he also doesn’t think we have to exaggerate in that. « Use your common sense and think about what you would take with you you had to go camping for a week and there are no shops in the area. What I don’t see in the list of Europe, for example, is toilet paper. I don’t know if you can and want to miss that, » he says.
« Now we go to the department store or the night shop when we notice that we don’t have something in the house. But think what you would need shouldn’t be possible. And if there were no stormy water or electricity temporarily. »
On Dutch websites you can buy a weekly box for 170 euros with dried food that can be stored for 25 years and takes care of 2,000 kcal per day for a week.
« I am now talking to my own store or webshop, but I would just recommend buying some extra cans that you like and that can still be kept for a long time. Beans, pasta in canned, tuna. And rice or pasta, for example. And enough water. Or something to make water drinkable. If necessary, a person can do 40 days without food, but barely 3 days without water, says Vanhoef.
