Reuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites. The views expressed are the author's alone. COLOMBO, 8 July 2008 - Residents of Ovilkanda, a remote village in Matale District, central Sri Lanka, often contend with a natural hazard, lightning, that strikes with great frequency and sometimes with deadly effect. So when the local school, the Ovilkanda Maha Vidyalaya, hosted a disaster mitigation programme conducted jointly by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Disaster Management Centre (http://www.dmc.gov.lk/), the government agency handling disaster mitigation, the students were unanimous in their choice of which disaster prevention mechanism was most needed. "They wanted a lightning conductor fixed to the school building," Indika Ranaweera, the DMC's...
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