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To enhance awareness among school students and to sensitize them towards disasters and their management, painting, poster and slogan competitions on the theme 'Safety from Disasters' have been organized in schools for the children in the age group of 13-17 years...
India - government
La journée internationale de la prévention des catastrophes naturelles est l’occasion pour la Croix-Rouge française de renouveler son message 'Préparez-vous à être prêts' afin d’interpeller les citoyens sur leur rôle primordial dans la chaîne des secours...
French Red Cross
Autoridades y funcionarios de la Secretaría del Riesgo, bomberos, educadores, estudiantes y miembros de las Fuerzas Armadas, conjuntamente con sus perros amaestrados, desfilaron por celebrarse el Día Internacional de la Reducción de Riesgos y Desastres en Bolívar, Ecuador...
Diario de los Andes
In the Disaster Risk Reduction projects conducted by Malteser International, the relief service of the Order of Malta for worldwide humanitarian aid, children and youth are playing an essential role to help keep their communities safe...
Malteser International
Every morning from 17-24 September, Kobe University student Erick Gonzales picks up his badge, his assignment and tools for the day, and is transported inside the coastal city of Ofunato to help the city clean up and recover from the damage caused by the 11 March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Kobe Office
In this opinion for the Financial Express, M Mizanur Rahman points at weak infrastructure, lack of awareness, lack of law enforcement and massive corruption as the major issues that made Bangladesh so vulnerable to earthquake...
Financial Express
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urges member-States and organizations to scale up their financial, human and technology investments for disaster risk reduction, including the development of private and public sector partnerships (PPP)...
Philippine Information Agency
NADMO Officials are working toward involving disaster management in the school curricula to enable children to learn the causes and prevention of disaster, "with this they would be able to educate their peers and parents on disaster issues"...
Ghana News Agency

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