This year, 13 October marks the 35th International Day for Disaster Reduction, with the theme "Empowering Young Generations for a Resilient Future". In order to strengthen the publicity and education of disaster prevention and mitigation science, on October 12, Hexi District organized the International Day for Disaster Reduction activities in Dexian Primary School, a demonstration school for earthquake prevention and disaster reduction science popularization in Tianjin, to deliver disaster prevention and mitigation knowledge and skills to children and adolescents with practical drills, scientific lectures and active interactions.
After careful preparation in the early stage, the activity was launched in an intense and orderly campus emergency evacuation drill. More than 1,000 students and young teachers of Dexian Primary School participated in the whole drill process, and the drill was compact and orderly, achieving the expected results. The event invited Pang Qunying, the ambassador of Tianjin Science Popularization, to comment on the drill, and around the emergency avoidance skills, evacuation essentials, family earthquake prevention and risk avoidance, etc., the knowledge explanation and Q&A interactive method was adopted, and a vivid science popularization lecture was carried out, which enhanced the strong interest of teachers and students in learning disaster prevention and mitigation knowledge and skills, and exercised practical experience. Publicity materials containing knowledge of avoiding danger and self-rescue such as earthquakes, floods, and fires were also distributed at the event.
The International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction activities will help children and adolescents master the basic knowledge, professional knowledge, skills and skills of disaster avoidance and self-rescue, and continuously improve the awareness of disaster prevention and mitigation and comprehensive disaster reduction capacity of the whole people by educating a student to lead a family.
Source: Tianjin Hexi District Emergency Management Bureau
Editor/Producer: Zhu Xinkai
Reviewer: Yin Yueming
Review: Liu Chunxiang