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School Safety: Review Workshop On Regional Exchange Visit

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15 January 2020
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2020-01-15 16:33

A Review Workshop on Regional Exchange Visit of Comprehensive School Safety was conducted in Yangon on Wednesday.

Funded by the European Union, Plan International Myanmar has been implementing Myanmar Consortium on Community Resilience (MCCR) project since October 2018 in collaboration with Department of Basic Education. The regional exchange visit was part of the project to share the differences in implementing the project activities, to create network between schools, students, teachers and communities and to document the good practices.

Project Manager, Plan International Myanmar, Su Ei Nandar said “Under the project, school safety practical session for school-related personnel are for 20 schools – regarding the capacity building for teachers, we gave TOT training to 240 teachers from 120 schools. Natural hazards can damage schools too. So, for School Safety, we need to add comprehensive school safety procedure to the National Education Strategic Plan. We have plans to help more schools with school safety measures.”

The project has almost 95% finished in the 20 schools including public schools and monastic Schools to strengthen community and institutional resilience to natural hazards in Myanmar.

Yangon Region, Mandalay Region and Rakhine State are the project areas - teachers, parents and students from those regions and state joined the workshop.

Principal, BEMS Shwe Kyan (Minbya Township), Htun Myint Soe said “We received school safety TOT training at Hinthada Disaster Management Training Centre. And, we gave the training back to grade-6, grade-7 and grade-8students at my school in collaboration with fire services and red cross departments. Teachers, parents, students and members of the community have now known school safety through the project - we need to upgrade the measures every year.”

Findings from the Exchange Visit will be submitted to the National Level Comprehensive School Safety Forum which will be held from 16th to 17th of January, 2020 in Nay Pyi Taw.

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