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International Day for Disaster Reduction - Maldives

Organizer(s) United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific World Health Organization (WHO) International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Format
In person
Date

The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) and partners (The World Health Organization (WHO), The International Federation of the Red Crescent (IFRC/MRC), The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Ministry of Education of the Maldives, the National Disaster Management Centre (NDMC) and TV Maldives) will organize a field trip for school children to Dhuvaafaru Island, which was severely hit by the 2004 tsunami. A television debate among the children will be aired and the awards ceremony of a drawing competition will be held.

Source
http://www.unisdr.org

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Themes Capacity development Climate change Education and school safety Advocacy and media Disaster risk management Inclusion Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
Country and region Maldives Asia

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