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Teachers enhance knowledge on disaster risk reduction |17 August 2018

 

 

 

A group of primary school teachers on Mahé are taking part in a two-day workshop on Disaster Risk Reduction Awareness being held at the Red Cross Society of Seychelles (RCSS) headquarters, Providence.

The workshop, which started yesterday, is aimed at empowering the teachers with knowledge on disaster preparedness, to better respond and manage situations in case of a disaster at their schools.

Topics for the two-day workshop include increasing knowledge on disasters that can affect Seychelles, identifying hazards that can lead to disasters, understanding the importance of doing disaster risk reduction awareness exercises, identifying disaster risk reduction messages so as to disseminate these quickly to children at schools and tools development, relating to use of better resource applications to raise disaster risk reduction awareness among children of 8-11 years of age.

The workshop is part of a series of regional workshops being organised also in countries of the region, such as Reunion, Madagascar, Comoros and Mauritius. These workshops being held within the phase 2 of ‘Towards Safer and Resilient Community’ project,  are being funded by the European Union and the Reunion region through the ‘Plate-forme d’Intervention Regionale Ocean Indien (PIROI). PIROI is an international disaster risk reduction and management intervention mechanism led by the French Red cross, operating in the south west of the Indian Ocean. RCSS is a member of PIROI.

The workshop is being held in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development.

The ultimate goal for a safer and resilient community through a disaster risk reduction approach is to strengthen the capacity of the national society through training and recruitment of volunteers and empowering the community to engage in disaster preparedness and disaster risk reduction activities based on awareness of hazards, vulnerabilities and capacities among other goal strategies.

The workshop is being led by various facilitators, namely the secretary general of RCSS Colette Servina, assisted by RCSS project manager Barbara Carolus-Andre, and representatives from the Department of Risk & Disaster Management (DRDM), the Seychelles Fire and Rescue Services Agency (SFRSA) and from Seychelles Meteorological Authority (SMA). PIROI representative Mathieu Basquet from Reunion is also present as a facilitator for the workshop.

The school teachers and other staff, some of whom are sitting on their school’s disaster risk management committees, said during the introduction yesterday, that they wanted to learn more on disaster risk reduction so as to get more knowledge to pass on and to also help them in strengthening their school’s disaster emergency plan.

The workshop ends this afternoon.

Mrs Servina later said that a similar workshop will be held for primary school teachers on Praslin and La Digue.

 

 

 

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