Workshop on disaster risk
Tribune News Service

Shimla, August 25
The Society for Sustainable Environment Ecological Development
Society (SEEDS) is organising a workshop to sensitise schoolchildren
and teachers as regards disaster risk reduction, especially in case
of earthquakes.

Two community seminars, teachers' training workshop on disaster risk
reduction and earthquake drills for schoolchildren will be organised
during the three-day workshop. The workshop is being organised under
the project "Reducing vulnerability of schoolchildren to earthquakes
in Asia Pacific Region" initiated by the United Nations Centre for
Regional Development (UNCRD).

The teachers will be given technical information related to
earthquake and disaster risk reduction activities. The fact that
Shimla falls in high seismic risk zone-V is one of the reasons for
the holding the workshop.

Experts from various fields are participating in the workshop. The
training will help in making teachers experts in disaster risk
reduction so that they can become a channel to spread the culture of
disaster safety in their schools as well as in the community.