Children taking parting in disaster awareness programmes have proved highly effective in disaster mitigation at village level COLOMBO, 8 July 2008 (IRIN) - 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, 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 disaster management coordinator for Matale...
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