workshop for visually impaired school children of victoria memorial school for blinds by saritsa...

SARITSA FOUNDATION (SARITSA CHARITY TRUST)

A Mobile University For Disaster Risk Reduction & Climate Change – Mission National Security.

"Reach to People, Talk to People and Prepare People“

Builds capacity to reduce risks from disasters and climate change by advocating and practicing. People Centered, People Led, and People Owned

Resilience – Investing in Life Saving Education. 

Saritsa Foundation prepares visually impaired girls, women and School children for disasters on eve of International Disaster Reduction day 2013.

Saritsa Foundation conducts 4 workshops on Life Saving Education from 12th October to 30th November.

Saritsa Foundation conducts a workshop for visually impaired school children, youth and school teachers of Victoria Memorial School for Blind children, Tardeo, Mumbai on 23rd November, 2013.

Objectives

1. To develop rapport with disabled to change their mindset of helplessness and powerlessness by reaching to them at their “Door Steps”.

2. To build capacity by imparting life saving education.

3. Make practical training and mock drills as an important part of training.

4. Provide Braille books, Audio books, Sign language handouts and Pictorial books to strengthen the process.

5. Develop individual willingness to prepare and make them believe that “I can prepare, I will prepare and I will protect myself”.

6. Sensitize parents, families, institute administrations and people in local governance.

7. Promote public/private partnership for financial support for sustainability of the campaign.

Methodology

1. Explaining to the participants, how prone are their areas to manmade and natural disasters. How they can prepare to minimize losses?

2. Raising awareness for Early warning for disasters in their regions and their response in way of moving out from scene of disasters, access to evacuation and transportation. It is to be sensitized that all communication channels be used by persons with disability for timely response. Their networking on mobiles with family members, relatives and control rooms will be very useful to receive and adhere to early warning to act.

3. Family and community preparedness to make provision for their needs in an emergency and making plans for protecting them as well as moving out of premises, evacuation and transportation.

4. Making plans for support of care takers and evolving Buddy System.

5. Defining routes, transportation and access to shelters. Guiding them to identified areas for food, water, medical help, and, use of latrines.

6. Provisioning for protecting women and girls from sexual violence.

7. Encourage disabled people to use local resources to protect and organize periodic mock drills with practical training for sustainability.

8. Preparation of guide lines to be made use in emergencies by local administration as well as making family and community plans is important.

9. Persons with disabilities be included, in a meaningful way, in each and every meeting, plan and decisions.

10.Buddy System (Jodidar) is important for persons with disability to plan protection and movement in disasters especially for visually impaired people with timely identification of a care taker for support in disasters is important.

11. Life Saving Education to build their capacity- It is important that provision for Braille books, pictorial hand book, Audio books, large print, use of sign language interpreters is made.

12. Most important part is to develop confidence amongst disabled that they have a role to protect themselves and build confidence in them.

The Participants

Practical Training and

Mock Drills for Earthquake

Taking protection under a table in class room in emergency of an earthquake.

Moving out of Dining Hall and protecting their head.

Sleeping in the Hostel.

Moving out of a room at 4 A.M. in emergency of earthquake.

With the help of Care Taker (in the center) an immediate Rescue and First Aid team prepared for the school.

Immediate Rescue and First Aid with the help of care taker.

Immediate Rescue and First Aid with the help of care taker.

Evacuation of a small child

Practical Training and

Mock Drills for Floods

Practical Training and

Mock Drills for Fire

Wrapping a blanket to extinguish a fire .

Rolling on the ground to extinguish fire to their clothes.

Practical Training and Mock Drills for

Terrorism and Chemical Hazards

Response to a terrorist fire.

Response to a Bomb Blast

Response to a Chemical threat.

Rahul Singh one of the youth participant thanks the team of Saritsa Foundation at the end of the workshop and comments that with the education and practical training provided with personal attention to each participant, we are inspired to protect our self in disasters with immediate response using material easily available with us.

Rahul Singh speaks

Shiva one of the student of class 10th spoke that he is confident to protect himself with the inputs of information on various disasters and practical training. He suggested that such education and practical training should be organize in Victoria School for Blinds periodically.

Shiva speaks

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