This paper investigates the impact of a community disaster awareness training on subjective disaster preparedness, focusing on the case of a Korean aid-supported disaster risk reduction project in the Ayeyarwaddy region in Myanmar. Our survey of a total of 181 households, including an equal number of project participating and control households, shows encouraging results for the project effectiveness on disaster preparedness. Although both ordinal logistic regressions and OLS models support overall robust effectiveness of participating in the project, the results also show different effects of specific activities: participating in DRR awareness meetings and trainings, as well as personal visits to share knowledge and/or informative flyers, are also important. In contrast, the significance of the effect of drills or community activities, in mass, is lost in a combined model. Consequently, we argue that 'personalizing risk' should be prioritized in any DRR effort, as well as, in particular, development cooperation aiming at increasing confidence in disaster preparedness.