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SARITSA FOUNDATION (SARITSA CHARITY TRUST)
A Mobile University For Disaster Risk Reduction & Climate Change
"Reach to People, Talk to People and Prepare People“
Builds capacity to reduce risks from disasters and climate change by reaching to “Door Steps of vulnerable people - "A People Centered, People Led, and
People Owned Resilience and Safety Culture Methodology.
Saritsa Foundation organized workshop at JeevaniInternational School, Chirawa to build their safety culture and resilience to minimize risk from disasters and climate change on 1st March 2013.
About 250 school children and teachers participated.
Objectives
1) To create an enabling environment amongst participants to build capacity by raising awareness, imparting education and training with use of local resources for innovations keeping in view the significant hazard proneness of their region.
2) To empower school children to understand their role and responsibility towards preparing themselves and be accountable at local level to minimize losses.
3) To provide equal opportunities to children and teachers in decision making, planning, and implementation of mitigation policies for disaster risk reduction and protecting means of livelihood.
4) To ensure setting up of warning system mechanisms with communication net work with conventional expertise and
technologies to inter act with local government authorities, NGOs and outside agencies.
5) To guide participants to evolve action plans to integrate disaster risk reduction with plans of poverty eradication and development with usable tools with identification of specific needs to protect property, facilities, and economic activities.
6) To be awareness raisers, trainers and motivators to sustain the initiative and keep on developing it.
7) To be able to measure and quantify sustainability of their capacity building efforts time to time and evolving future preparedness plans.
The participants were provided opportunity to learn to protect themselves and be self reliant to cope with disasters.
The Awareness, Education and Training was conducted with interactive participatory methodology.
The participants were encouraged to analyze risk and vulnerability to them under various scenarios of their houses, their working places and their movement and their areas.
They were encourage to raise awareness among themselves and their families and prepared to respond accordingly.
Make use of local resources and local experience and expertise.
Participants were provided practical training with mock drills with live scenarios of disasters.
Develop buddy system(jodi system) to respond to disasters.
Practice to cope with different emergencies as trained by practical training and mock drills.
The Photographs of the event speak!!!
The team of Saritsa Foundation with the Director and Staff of Jeevani International School.
The Principal Shri. Rajesh Verma speaks at the inauguration.
The Participants
Mock Drills for Earthquake
Mock Drills for Bomb Blast
Evacuation
The group of Participants with Experts of Saritsa
Foundation
The group of Participants with
Director General of Saritsa Foundation
Appreciation Letter from school
Thank You !!
Please Contact
Mob : 91 9323157377
Tel : 91 22 24366370
Website : www.saritsafoundation.org