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Save the Children Sweden believes that children, who are equipped with skills and knowledge and have support from adults, can play an active role in their communities and schools. With the participation of children, a community’s development plan and disaster preparedness would truly reflect the needs and rights of all community members, including children. To protect and save lives, we work with community members, particularly children, to better understand the nature of natural disasters and know how to protect themselves when disasters occur.
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*Every $1 spent on preparing for a disaster can prevent $7 of losses
*$10 billion they spend on responding to disasters on preparation, they could prevent $7 billion of losses. Enough to respond to five tsunamis. |
Our Tsunami Response Programme in Thailand is designed to empower children and young people to be able to participate meaningfully in their community’s development plans and activities. Children in tsunami-prone areas join educational activities to learn about natural disasters and reduce the risks of future disasters. Aside from natural disaster education, the programme aims to promote children’s learning about their own communities and their rights.
>> Our work in tsunami-affected areas in Thailand
In Viet Nam, Save the Children Sweden works with partners in seven provinces to raise awareness of the nature of vulnerability of children and the impact of disasters on children, including danger from drowning, inability to access schools in floods, weakened school buildings during and after floods. The work results in an establishment of safe play areas for children, rehabilitation of school buildings, and provision of clean water supplies to schools during floods and typhoons. Community leaders have acknowledged the importance of child participation and support the idea of ‘listening to children’ to better understand children’s needs.
In the Philippines, Save the Children Sweden supports Save the Children US to provide safe play areas for children, psychosocial interventions, and education for children affected by the 2006 landslide in southern Leyte and Typhoon Durian in Bicol.