Youth Initiative: Hope of Community Resilience Building
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Strengthening Community Resilience against Disaster through the School Safety Initiative (SCRSSI) project in Kurigram District Bangladesh, a place affected badly by multiple hazards such as flooding, drought, thunderstorms, earthquakes, river erosion and flash floods. Plan International Japan funded this project to improve the learning environment to minimizes the impact of disaster so that girls and boys in the most at risk communities in Bangladesh have equal access to safer education.
In the targeted school catchment areas, the project team formed 12 youth groups which has 281 members (including 127 adolescent girls. The objective of forming these Youth Groups is to increase their knowledge and awareness on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Gender & Inclusion. It helps foster important participation in school and community disaster preparedness, so that they can be the actors of ch