Bangladesh: Digital platform tool for disaster preparedness
Suggests one of 12 project proposals
Children should have the knowledge of disaster preparedness so that they can react appropriately in times of emergency; and in imparting the lessons to them, digital platform can be used.
However, indigenous children in hill region have little access to education, let alone learning about disaster preparedness through digital platform.
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Zhantu Chakma, whose project proposes imparting disaster preparedness education to hill people using technological means, was talking to The Daily Star on the sidelines of a programme that introduced a total of 12 project proposals in four different fields -- health, environment, communication and social enterprise -- on finding solutions to disaster preparedness.
Disasters and Emergencies Preparedness Programme LAB Bangladesh (DEPP LAB BD), a project working on to develop effective humanitarian response, organised the programme in the capital's Dhaka Club yesterday.
Explaining about his proposal of the project titled, “Digital School for Indigenous People”, Zhantu, also a freelance photographer and videographer, said, “In our village (in Khagrachhari), we do not have any school within two-kilometre radius. So I have a plan to set up a school that will help students learn through digital contents.”
Along with the regular study, the digital platform can be used to make the students aware of environmental and social issues by showing pictures, online videos and so on, he added.
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