Kiwi Lack Of Preparedness For Disaster Addressed With
Ready-Made Emergency Survival Kits

Thursday March 3, 2011

Kiwis who want to heed Civil Defence messages to “be prepared” but have no idea where to start will welcome the launch of Plan2Survive, a New Zealand company that provides ready-made survival kits for homes, work and school with enough food, water, warmth, and shelter to get through for at least three days in a disaster.

Plan2Survive founder Brent Agnew, is an ex-army serviceman and keen hunter and tramper who saw the need for the business up two years ago, when it became very clear that although he knew how to get equipped for a Civil Defence emergency with his army experience, not many others around him did.

“It really struck me how there are all these campaigns aimed at motivating people to get ready for when disaster inevitably strikes, and yet very few people actually have an emergency survival kit in their home, office, or school,” Mr Agnew says. “I think the reality is, it’s not that people don’t want to have a kit ready to go, it’s more that they don’t know where to start,” he says.

“I was also appalled by a lot of the existing emergency survival kits that are on the market – some of them could be more life threatening than saving if people were to rely on them – so using skills I developed in the army and time spent “out bush” on hunting and tramping trips, I formulated what I believe are the ultimate in survival kits.”

The Plan2Survive kits range from one to four person 72hr Backpack Survival Kits for a getaway situation, two person or four person mega-kits that contain more luxury items and tools, through to 10 person office kits that even include two portable toilets and a pry bar.

Mr Agnew says the backpack kits contain the bare minimum items a good quality home survival kit should have. “Contents of these kits include emergency food and water with a five year shelf life, dust masks, First Aid kits, tube tents, emergency blankets and stoves, waterproof matches, swiss pocket knives, ponchos and more,” he says. “Some of the kits feature 24hr military style “rat packs” which are also available for separate purchase.”

Agnew says that while he regrets that Plan2Survive was not ready to launch before the tragic events in Christchurch, he and his team are now doing everything they can to raise awareness of the kits so that others can be prepared. “We have already had some requests for packs to send to Christchurch, and for the next month we are donating $20 from the sale of every pack to the Red Cross earthquake fund,” he says.

For more information visit www.plan2survive.co.nz

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