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Since the Indian Ocean tsunami hit Thailand’s southern provinces in December 2004, Save the Children Sweden has worked to fulfil the rights of children in the affected areas. Post-tsunami protection of children against violence, exploitation, and abuse has been addressed by several children’s organisations. However, children’s participation in planning and implementing post-tsunami programmes has not been emphasised strongly. Save the Children Sweden supports children and young people to participate meaninfully in their communities.
Empowering children
Together with partners, Save the Children Sweden works to empower young people in tsunami-affected areas, including Phuket, Pang Nga, Ranong and Krabi provinces, so that they can plan and implement projects in their communities. Young people and volunteers receive training on facilitation of children’s participation, leadership skills, social skill activities, and knowledge of natural disasters. As a result, they become instrumental in managing and operating local youth groups.
In six communities in Phuket and Pang Nga provinces, we support groups of children to run a community radio programme which includes talk shows about disaster prevention, news, health issues, and music. In Ranong Province, youth groups in four communities are supported to develop a child-friendly community plan which will be presented to the communities in late 2007.
Children take active roles
To help children better understand risks and different types of natural disasters, as well as ways to reduce the risks of disasters, activities such as puppet theatre road shows and other educational events are organised in schools and communities. Save the Children Sweden and partners work with 25 schools in tsunami-affected areas to build and enhance the skills and knowledge of children regarding disaster risk reduction activities, and to support schools to integrate natural disaster and preparedness education into their curricula.
With support from trained youth group members, children learn to map risk and safe areas in their communities. They also create educational campaigns to inform the public about the risks of natural disasters and how to reduce those risks.
Local learning
Our partner, Rabatbai Group, works with Talay Nok School in Ranong Province to develop a school curriculum that reflects local lives and knowledge. The curriculum is designed for students in Grades 4 to 6 and aims to enable students to apply their local knowledge in addressing issues and working out problems in their daily lives. One exercise in the curriculum, for example, is to calculate the income earned from selling fish, which is a real and familiar scenario for many children in the area.
The Talay Nok School’s new local curriculum, implemented from May 2007, now includes topics on the geography of the Talay Nok community; local history and culture; occupations and resources in the community; natural resources preservation; health, children’s rights and children’s development; and natural disaster education and prevention.
Partners in the tsunami response programme are
• National Council for Child and Youth Development (NCYD)
• Youth Network for Development (YND)
• Rabatbai Youth Group
• Fah Diow Foundation
• Tsunami Volunteer Center