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Thai students, teachers prepared for dealing with natural disasters
BANGKOK, September 3 (TNA) - The Thai Ministry of Education's Office of the Basic Education Commission (OBEC) has joined forces with the Ministry of Interior's Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to implement the second-phase of an official program on capacity building for students and educational personnel to prevent and deal with natural disasters in 15 provinces at risk.
OBEC Secretary–General Chinnapat Bhumirat said that the program is part of the Thai-Japanese academic cooperation project aimed to raise public awareness on proper prevention and preparation for natural disasters, through information provision and cooperative networks.
Chinnapat noted that, following the successful implementation of the first-phase program from 2006-2008 in three Thai provinces of Mae Hong Son, Chumphon and Phuket, which were hard-hit by landslides, floods and tsunami, the second-phase program has been continued, from 2010 to 2013, under which disaster risk management plans are being developed.
Once completed, the senior Thai official said, the management plans will be distributed to schools in the 15 natural disaster-prone provinces in Thailand's all four main regions so that they will be able to work out risk assessment and maps of disaster-prone areas, as well as develop evacuation plans and conduct disaster drills on their own. (TNA)
OBEC Secretary–General Chinnapat Bhumirat said that the program is part of the Thai-Japanese academic cooperation project aimed to raise public awareness on proper prevention and preparation for natural disasters, through information provision and cooperative networks.
Chinnapat noted that, following the successful implementation of the first-phase program from 2006-2008 in three Thai provinces of Mae Hong Son, Chumphon and Phuket, which were hard-hit by landslides, floods and tsunami, the second-phase program has been continued, from 2010 to 2013, under which disaster risk management plans are being developed.
Once completed, the senior Thai official said, the management plans will be distributed to schools in the 15 natural disaster-prone provinces in Thailand's all four main regions so that they will be able to work out risk assessment and maps of disaster-prone areas, as well as develop evacuation plans and conduct disaster drills on their own. (TNA)
