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The following news story has come from NHK, the Japanese TV station which broadcasts via satellite in English, but is an important step and a warning about the dangers of ignoring safety messages!

The education board in Ishinomaki City, northeastern Japan has admitted responsibility and apologized for the large number of deaths among students at the Okawa Elementary School in last year's tsunami.



70 of the school's 108 students were killed in the March 11th…

Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) organizes International Training Course on Integrated Disaster Risk Reduction - IUDRR in New Delhi from 24 to 28 February 2012. Application Deadline is 13 February.

Visit: http://www.iihs.co.in/programmes/pwp/iudrr/feb2012/

Adding a new curriculum guide for interactive teaching of DRR in Georgia, but could be applied in any classroom for younger students, most of lessons are aimed at grades 5-9 and the aim is for student participation and understanding rather than didactic teaching of curriculum, which is definitely a step…

It's B-A-C-K ! ! ! 

Add YOUR blog about what you have found to work in your school,…

This set of resources is aimed at students in the 14-19 age range. The first consists of a real audio player file which are the 911 calls taken at the time of the 1989 San Francisco…

I am going to be talking to 1500 students next week in school assembly about International DRR Day and how they can make a difference! I am including the PowerPoint and the files that you would need to show the video clips. 

This is the PowerPoint file: …

Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS); premier national education institution committed to the equitable, sustainable and efficient transformation of Indian settlements is pleased to announce First Short Term Professional Development Course on Disaster Risk Management "Towards Disaster Resilient Cities" in Delhi from 17 to 21 October 2011.  Details of the course and application form can be downloaded at …

Teacher training in climate change education is in its infancy In advance of the tenth anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit (Rio+20), UNESCO is launching a Teacher Education Course on…

Dear colleagues of Edu4DRR,

In an effort to continue to provide a great service and share the latest Edu4DRR blog news, videos and more, I have been experimenting with a mobile app services. I am providing a link to paste into you mobile phone browser here or you can use the image below with your camera phone bar code reader to go to the mobile site. Although you can access Edu4DRR with…

Here is a great resource I found on Save the Children Website. It is also available in Thai, where it was carried out as an education project and would certainly be a lot of fun to carry out with very young children who make puppet shows as well as maps and go-bags and seems to be a great way of involving the whole…

The Third Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction – a forum that brings together stakeholders and experts committed to reducing disaster risk worldwide – gathered this week in Geneva. The theme of this year’s event is ‘Invest Today for a Safer Tomorrow - Increase Investment in Local…

 Deadline for receipt of applications for UNESCO Chair International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage organized by Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto has now been extended to 15 May 2011. However the course will take place as scheduled from 10 to 24 September 2011. Please refer to details on the following link: …

Local wisdom a lifesaver…

April is Autism Awareness Month (and April 2^nd was World Autism Awareness Day), so it’s a great time to ensure that your preparedness efforts are inclusive of people with Autism in our families, staff/volunteer pools, and our community at large. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a range of complex neurodevelopmental disorders and people…

After the earthquake and Japan there has been much talk of how the country and its people was prepared. Below is an image of a Grab-Bag or Go-Bag from Jpaan. But what do you put in yours? 

• Do you have one for the family?
• Do you have one for the car?
• What do you take on holiday?

Let us know and post pics to this post!!

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Cyclone Yasi is approaching a highly populated area of NE Australia and will be a category 5 cyclone with storm surge of up to 7 meters! I am adding advice to my twitter feed: http://twitter.com/edu4drr. If you have advice that should be shared for this time and…