A charter covering children’s top priorities in disasters has been launched at the UN’s Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction meeting in Geneva this week.
Supported by Plan as part of the Children in a Changing Climate coalition, the 5-point charter is the culmination of new research involving more than 600 children in 21 countries.
The children named safer schools as their top priority in emergencies and identified education, child protection and access to basic information as their main needs.
Plan is hosting several sessions at this year’s conference and is supporting the participation of 2 youths from the Philippines – Tricia, aged 14, and Andre aged 16, who are both from Cebu province and members of their school’s disaster risk reduction group.
Læs Tricia og Andres blog om det her http://planyouth.tumblr.com/
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