By: Arif Ahmad
Swat: CRA (Community Resilience Activity North) organized disaster preparedness planning training workshops for the people of Madyan’s three villages, Paklai, Cherbet, and Shagai.
The first workshop was held in October, a five-day workshop on Community Risk Assessment, a month later a Community Risk Disaster Planning Workshop and a three-day Community-Based Disaster Risk Management Concept Note Development Workshop were held.
According to the CRA organizers, 60 people from the three villages of Madyan participated, including 45 men and 15 women.
The objective of these workshops was to prepare and plan for disaster and hazard prevention so that these people can protect their areas from various natural calamities.
Apart from this, training was given on taking steps to reduce the concerns, checking the concerns, and comprehensive planning for the same.
Organizers say that “in the first workshop, the participants were told about disasters and how to be safe from disaster risks, then they were given field visits to places where risks were high”.
“A report was prepared for each village and a village developing plan was drawn up” they added
The main objective of the workshops was to make people aware of disasters, emergency committees were formed at the village level, so that future threats could be dealt with.
On the last day of the workshop, Rescue 1122 Emergency Officer Malik Sher Dil Khan and Principal Secretary to AC Bahrain Karim Baksh participated.
They reviewed all the workshops from CRA, the work done on risks, and guided the participants.
They appreciated this initiative of CRA and said that after this training workshop, the people here will be able to prepare timely measures to be safe from future threats and possibly prevent threats.
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