Helvetas is an organization specialized in development cooperation and humanitarian response, anchored in Switzerland. Our vision is a just world in which all men and women determine the course of their lives in dignity and security, using environmental resources in a sustainable manner.
PARTHA DEBNATH
Role: Founder Director
I have more than twenty years of experience in pedagogy and community enegagement for children s education and interactive learning experience. I founded two non-profit orgainzations - e.g. i) Friends of Bangla School and ii) Forum for Arts and Comunity Education and have engaged myself in community initiatives to develop curriculum, contents and instructional methods for Bengali language and culture studies, for pre-school, elementary and middle school kids. These programs help kids to develop self esteem, improve learning ability, and understanding of social, cultural and ethnic diversity.
I am interested in exploring the possibilities to reach out to a wider community and partner with organizations to expand the impact on a broader scale.
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UNESCO coordinates a tsunami preparedness exercise on 11 March in Caribbean
The Caribbean States and adjacent regions will participate on 11 March in their annual tsunami preparedness exercise, set up under the aegis of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC-UNESCO), as they commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake in Japan, which caused a deadly and devastating surge on the north-eastern coast of the island of Honshu, leading to the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Countries bordering the North-East Atlantic, the Mediterranean and adjacent seas will take part in a similar exercise from 8 to 10 March.
The purpose of the exercise is to assess local tsunami response plans, increase preparedness for such events and improve overall coordination. The exercise is also intended to contribute to the objectives of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, launched on 1 January 2021 under the aegis of IOC-UNESCO.
Print article A visitation suspension that was once put in place to protect people within Alaska’s correctional facilities is now doing the opposite, officials from the Alaska Black Caucus said Thursday. The caucus has been pushing for months to have visitation restrictions loosened in the state’s correctional facilities because of the impact it has on attorney-client communications. The Alaska Department of Corrections halted all in-person visitation last March when COVID-19 was first detected in the state. At the time, officials said they implemented safety precautions in hopes of minimizing the risk of virus spread in Alaska’s crowded jails. But by fall and winter, COVID-19 was spreading rampantly in the state’s correctional facilities.