Myanmar Red Cross Society activities for International Day for Disaster Reduction

Disaster risk reduction is one of the core activities of Myanmar Red Cross Society.

For International Day for Disaster Reduction, Myanmar Red Cross Society will this year conduct activities at the national, regional, township and community levels, including:

• Particpating as partner of the national level celebration hosted by the Relief and Resettlement Department (at which they will distribute and display DRR material and photos).
• Joining Yangon activities, promoting the success of the MRCS DRR programme in Yangon.
• At township level, an essay and painting contest will be organized either by the program or branch/schools for students of secondary level and interested candidates. The celebration of township level commemoration will be organized on the date or week of IDDR (third week of October) and during the occasion, DRR education talks, awarding of prizes and community participation will be included in the agenda.