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This paper reports on the various activities that were organized by ActionAid Bangladesh, with the help of its local partner Jagrata Juba Shangha (JJS), and under the umbrella of the sixth DIPECHO action plan in South Asia, Bangladesh, to sensitize the cyclone prone community of Shyamnagar Sub-district of Satkhira. DIPECHO is working with schools, Union Disaster Management Committee and local community based organizations in Shyamnagar to reduce various forms of vulnerabilities to tropical cyclones, one of which, commonly known as cyclone Aila, ravaged the area in May 2009.