Thua Thien-Hue’s residents better prepared for disasters
About 2,200 people, including 600 children, from 20 communes in central Thua Thien-Hue province have received training in how to cope with natural disasters under a US-funded project.
This is part of the results of the project “Increasing Emergency Preparedness and Resilience of Vulnerable Coastal Communities in Central Vietnam”, which was implemented by Save the Children in Vietnam (SCiV) with fundings from the USAID Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA).
Speaking at a March 6 reviewing seminar, Tran Van Nhan, Vice Chairman of Thua Thien-Hue Red Cross Society cum director of the project’s steering committee, said that the committee and SCiV have cooperated closely to share experiences and facilitate the project.
Local authorities and residents have also actively joined in training programmes and rescue rehearsals, improving their capacity in emergency response and rescue, he said.
The project has provided target localities with necessary equipment, built small scale constructions and helped set up plans on preventing and reducing the consequences of natural disasters.
Twenty communes of Quang Dien, Phu Loc and Phu Vang districts benefited from the project, which was implemented from April, 2012, to March this year.