SARITSA FOUNDATION (SARITSA CHARITY TRUST)

A Mobile University For Disaster Risk Reduction & Climate Change – Mission National Security.

"Reach to People, Talk to People and Prepare People“

Builds capacity to reduce risks from disasters and climate change by advocating and practicing. People Centered, People Led, and People Owned

Resilience – Investing in Life Saving Education. 

Saritsa Foundation prepares visually impaired girls, women and School children for disasters on eve of International Disaster Reduction day 2013.

Saritsa Foundation conducts 4 workshops on Life Saving Education from 12th October to 30th November.This workshop for visually impaired girls of Kamla Mehta School for Blind Girls was conducted on 12th October 2013.

Saritsa Foundation has recognized that the People with disabilities are disproportionately vulnerable in emergencies and face high loss of lives and it aggravates their poverty since most of vulnerable people live in poverty in urban slums and rural areas. To mark the importance of International Day for Disaster Reduction 2013, Saritsa Foundation conduct 4 workshop for visually impaired women, girls and school children. Saritsa Foundation has recognized that when we do not include about 70 million women, girls, children and men with disability in the process of Disaster Risk Reduction in INDIA, we are denying opportunities to them to build their capacity to protect lives in emergencies, which increases their vulnerability.

Saritsa Foundation analyzes that reasons for their vulnerability are that they have no opportunity to build their knowledge to respond, or learn to adhere to early warning. It is a reality that they have never thought of immediate plans, they have not thought of a process for moving out of their houses, offices , institutions and schools. They have not discussed and planned with their families to cope with such emergencies, friends, community members including people in local governance. They are never a part of plans or decisions for DRR. The parents and families of persons with disability themselves are very little aware to plan for them They are not aware about their evacuation plans, their transportation, protection of women and girls from sexual violence, food, water, shelter, latrines and medicine provisions as well as their buddies or care takers.

How Saritsa Foundation has been building capacity of persons with disability since June 2000?Saritsa Foundation is the most vibrant and committed contributor amongst national and international NGOs in the field of building capacity of the most vulnerable in India. With its minimal resources it has imparted life saving education to 9750 physically challenged, visually impaired, slow learners, mentally retarded, suffering with autism, deafness and dumbness. Saritsa Foundation knows that disasters do not discriminate, human beings do.To take care of this concern Saritsa Foundation endeavoring to unite people in Governance, Administrators of Institutions, international NGOs, and corporate sectors, religious institutions

and individual and communities to mainstream people with disability in capacity building, decision making, policy formulation and implementation to provide Right to life safety and security to the persons with disabilities in disasters, with especial priority to women, girls and children.

Objectives

1. To develop rapport with disabled to change their mindset of helplessness and powerlessness by reaching to them at their “Door Steps”.

2. To build capacity by imparting life saving education.

3. Make practical training and mock drills as an important part of training.

4. Provide Braille books, Audio books, Sign language handouts and Pictorial books to strengthen the process.

5. Develop individual willingness to prepare and make them believe that “I can prepare, I will prepare and I will protect myself”.

6. Sensitize parents, families, institute administrations and people in local governance.

7. Promote public/private partnership for financial support for sustainability of the campaign.

Methodology

1. Explaining to the participants, how prone are their areas to manmade and natural disasters. How they can prepare to minimize losses?

2. Raising awareness for Early warning for disasters in their regions and their response in way of moving out from scene of disasters, access to evacuation and transportation. It is to be sensitized that all communication channels be used by persons with disability for timely response. Their networking on mobiles with family members, relatives and control rooms will be very useful to receive and adhere to early warning to act.

3. Family and community preparedness to make provision for their needs in an emergency and making plans for protecting them as well as moving out of premises, evacuation and transportation.

4. Making plans for support of care takers and evolving Buddy System.

5. Defining routes, transportation and access to shelters. Guiding them to identified areas for food, water, medical help, and, use of latrines.

6. Provisioning for protecting women and girls from sexual violence.

7. Encourage disabled people to use local resources to protect and organize periodic mock drills with practical training for sustainability.

8. Preparation of guide lines to be made use in emergencies by local administration as well as making family and community plans is important.

9. Persons with disabilities be included, in a meaningful way, in each and every meeting, plan and decisions.

10.Buddy System (Jodidar) is important for persons with disability to plan protection and movement in disasters especially for visually impaired people with timely identification of a care taker for support in disasters is important.

11. Life Saving Education to build their capacity- It is important that provision for Braille books, pictorial hand book, Audio books, large print, use of sign language interpreters is made.

12. Most important part is to develop confidence amongst disabled that they have a role to protect themselves and build confidence in them.

The Participants

Practical Training and

Mock Drills for Earthquake

Practical Training and

Mock Drills for Floods

Practical Training and Mock Drills

for Chemical and Biological Hazards

Practical Training and Mock Drills

for Fire

Care Taker Dining Hall

Care Taker Dining Hall

Practical Training and Mock Drills

for Terrorism and Bomb Blast

First Aid

A participant thanks the team of Saritsa Foundation on completion of the workshop.

I thank the team of Saritsa Foundation for this valuable education and practical training. It has made me confident to protect.

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