Disaster awareness in primary schools

The Project “Disaster Awareness in Primary Schools” is an effort aiming to strengthen risk awareness in Indonesian Primary Schools and to prepare the school community to act in a way that the risk of becoming victim is reduced in case disaster strikes. The project aims to combat fatalistic attitudes that lead to indifference toward risk reduction measures. This indifference may even be encouraged or exploited by certain groups in order to maintain the status quo. Information is provided about the causes and impact of natural disasters and participants are trained in measures to take before, during and after disaster strikes. The project involves improvements to the teaching methodologies currently in use by Indonesian primary school teachers.