TOT training on Disaster Preparedness

Programme: TOT training on Disaster Preparedness
Date: 17/03/2006
Venue: CTRP -World Vision, Cuddalore office
No. of Participants: 14 staff + 7 volunteers

Minutes of the Programme

The programme is about TOT training for Volunteers from Singarathope & Thazhanguda hamlet and staff of World vision on Disaster Preparedness. This is the first training programme organised for the community by World Vision for Disaster Preparedness and 4 volunteers from Singarathope hamlet, 3 Volunteers from Thazhanguda hamlet and 14 staff from World Vision attended the Training.

This training programme is organised for the volunteers and staff in order to prepare them for the Participatory Learning Action (PLA - a modified version of PRA) exercise to be held in their respective villages, shortly. The first PLA exercise is being organised on 23rd and 24th of March 2006 at Thazhanguda hamlet. It is planned that 2 World Vision staff with one volunteer will be assisting the groups during the PLA exercise, where the role of 2 staff will be to guide the group and role of one volunteer will be to lead the group.

Mr. Sherine David, NUNV, District Recovery Facilitator, Cuddalore and Villupuram, UNTRS-TN handled the morning first session on Introduction to Disaster Preparedness. The NUNV covered the topics on what is disaster, types of disaster, do and dont's during a disaster, disaster management cycle and role of volunteers in the community.

The second session on Activities carried out in Cuddalore District by DRM Programme is handled by Ms. Sakinabee, DPO, DRM Programme. She gave a note on the various teams formed in a village, role of the district administration in addressing the importance of Disaster management, activities of villagers during a disaster.

Mr. Raja kumar, Programme Manager, World Vision gave a summary note on Disaster Preparedness and small introduction on PLA.

The video show on Earth Quake, Experiences from Bhuj Disaster of TIFAC given by the JC office was played after the Third session.

After the lunch the first session was handled by Mr. Jaya Kumar, Disaster Preparedness Coordinator, World Vision on Participatory Learning Action (PLA) Exercise. He addressed on the concept, technique of PLA and how it works, effective methodology to form the Community Based Disaster Preparedness (CBDP) group in the community, effective methodology in facilitating the exercise, how to implement it in the field.

Mr. Bradley Thompson, National Coordinator, Disaster Preparedness Programme organised the whole participants in two groups and asked them to discuss about the preparations to be done in their community incase of Disaster warning.

Mr. Philip, staff of the World vision organised the group activity where the participants were formed in two groups and were asked to draw the resource map and to provide information on historical profile of their community with the guidance from the trainers.

The participants responded actively and sounded interesting to this training and are eager to do the training in their community.

Report on VDMT Training Programme at Cuddalore Block - day 2

Programme: Village Disaster Management Training (day 2)
Date: 19/03/2006
Venue: Sri Padaleeswarar High School, Thirupapuliyur
No. of Participants: 341 + BDO Office staff from 26 villages
Name of the Resource Persons:

a) First Aid and Rescue Team:

1. Dr. Ramamoorthy
2. D.Moosae Kadhar
3. R. Lakshmi 4. Ambujavalli

b) Safety and Rescue Team :

1. T. Venkat Ramanan
2. S. Kumar

3. P. Srinivasan

c) Water and Sanitation Team:

1. Dr. Vasanthi

Programme Report

Village Disaster Management was organised for the rest of 26 villages of Cuddalore Block today at Sri Padaleeswarar Government High School, Thirupapuliyur, Cuddalore. Totally 341 people participated in this programme. Ms. Sakinabee, District Project Officer, DRM Programme, Cuddalore District and Mr. Sherine David, NUNV, District Recovery Facilitator, UNTRS-TN attended the programme. The Training programme was organised for First Aid Team, Water & Sanitation Team and Safety & Rescue Team. The participants who were given specific tasks were asked to go to their respective classes.

The resource persons from St. John’s Ambulance (Vridhachalam and Chidambaram) handled the first aid training. The trainers provided information on basic methods to be followed during a rescue operation, various types of emergency treatment for the affected people during a disaster, do’s and don’ts during a first aid treatment and how to function during an emergency period with the materials in hand.

The resource persons from Fire Station office, Cuddalore Block handled the Safety and Rescue Training. The trainers gave information on importance for the training, how to rescue people during a disaster, precaution measures to be taken in rescue operation during a disaster, things to do during a rescue operation and role of various types of knots in a rescue operation. The participants were asked to do the demonstration in the classroom with the guidance from Resource persons.

The resource persons from Health Department, Cuddalore Block handled the session on Water and Sanitation. The trainers gave information on water borne disease and the ways to prevent such diseases, importance of using toilets, role of the team during and after a disaster, role of Primary Health Centre and services rendered by them for the community, Preparations to be made by the team in the community inorder to face the epidemic before and after a disaster.

Fire Service Team performed Mock Drill after the Training session to all the participants. Representatives from various team shared to all the participants about what they learnt in the training. Food was distributed all the participants about the training programme.

Totally, 613 people (272 members (18/03/2006) and 341 members (19/03/2006)) were given training about their responsibilities during a disaster in this VDMT Training at Cuddalore Block.
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Report on VDMT Training Programme at Cuddalore Block - day 1

Programme: Village Disaster Management Training (day 1)
Date: 18/03/2006
Venue: Sri Padaleeswarar High School, Thirupapuliyur
No. of Participants: 272 + BDO Office staff from 25 villages

Name of the Resource Persons:

a) First Aid and Rescue Team:
1.Dr. Lakshmi Narayanan
2. Dr. Ramamoorthy
3. D.Moosae Kadhar
4. R. Lakshmi
5. Ambujavalli

b) Safety and Rescue Team:
1. Venkat Ramanan
2. Kumar
3. Srinivasan

c) Water and Sanitation Team:
1. Dr. N. Hazifa

2. Dr. S. Jagatha

Minutes of the Programme

Village Disaster Management was organised for 25 villages of Cuddalore Block today at Sri Padaleeswarar Government High School, Thirupapuliyur, Cuddalore. Totally 272 people participated in this programme. Ms. Sakinabee, District Project Officer, DRM Programme, Cuddalore District and Mr. Sherine David, NUNV, District Recovery Facilitator, UNTRS-TN attended the programme. The Training programme was organised for First Aid Team, Water & Sanitation Team and Safety & Rescue Team. The participants who were given specific tasks were asked to go to their respective classes.

The resource persons from St. John’s Ambulance handled the first aid training. The trainers provided information on basic methods to be followed during a rescue operation, various types of emergency treatment for the affected people during a disaster, do’s and don’ts during a first aid treatment and how to function during a emergency period with the materials in hand.

The resource persons from Fire Station office, Cuddalore Block handled the Safety and Rescue Training. The trainers gave information on importance for the training, how to rescue people during a disaster, precaution measures to be taken in rescue operation during a disaster, things to do during a rescue operation and role of various types of knots in a rescue operation.

The resource persons from Health Department, Cuddalore Block handled the session on Water and Sanitation. The trainers gave information on water borne disease and the ways to prevent such diseases, importance of using toilets, role of the team during and after a disaster.

Fire Service Team performed Mock Drill after the Training session to all the participants. Representatives from various team shared to all the participants about what they learnt in the training. Food was distributed all the participants about the training programme.

Educational Kit for Pattraiyadi school going children

Master. Siddarth, 12 year boy studying in Delhi (son of Mr. Suraj Kumar, a staff member of UNDP) has donated Rs. 1,142/25 ps (Rupees one thousand one hundred and forty two paise/-) through UNDP from his piggy bank savings for the cause of Tsuanami Recovery. His donation has provided educational kits for 7-school going-Irula Tribe children (with the support of Indo-global Social Service Society) in Pattraiyadi village, Cuddalore District.

These people are living near to the backwater for the past 50 years and are involved in inland fishing. These people use to catch fishes in the backwater by hand without any equipment. Their normal income will be around Rs.50/day. After Tsunami, Indo-Global Social Service Society (IGSSS) as a part of livelihood support provided 2 Cattamarans for this community. Due to this support, now they are earning Rs. 100/- day.

Due to the interest shown by the District Administration in the welfare of Scheduled Caste/Tribe communities in Cuddalore District, these people were included in the name list of Permanent Housing for the Secondary affected villages.

Educational Kits Distribution

Child Vijayarani and Child Vijaya with their father

Child Sathiyabalan with his family

Child Udayanila with her family

Child Sangavi with her mother

Child Ragavi with her Father

Child Anbarasan with his family

Photos taken during singing the songs children learnt in school

During discussion with the community

Catching fish - Leisure activity for school going children of fishermen community - Reddiarpettai hamlet, Cuddalore District

Photos taken during the visit of Mr. Eric Schwartz, UN Deputy Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery Support to Cuddalore District - Part 3

Mr. Eric Schwartz enjoying the show with the translation from District Collector

Roleplay about importance of breast feeding in Thazhanguda, Cuddalore

Theatrical performance with and for children in Thazhanguda, Cuddalore

Theatrical performance with and for children in Thazhanguda, Cuddalore

Photos taken during the visit of Mr. Eric Schwartz, UN Deputy Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery Support to Cuddalore District - Part 2

Silver beach Shore, Devanampattinam hamlet

Silver beach shore, Devanampattinam hamlet

during press meet at Devanampattinam hamlet....

Thazhanguda, fruit & vegetable sculptures for children to learn about nutrition

Permanent Shelter (under construction) at Chinnavaikal hamlet

Boats at Chinnavaikal hamlet

boats at Chinnavaikal hamlet

boats at Chinnavaikal hamlet

Photos taken during the visit of Mr. Eric Schwartz, UN Deputy Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery Support to Cuddalore District - 26/02/2006

Mr. Dan Gustafson - UN, Mr. Didier Trebucq - UNDP and Fr. Ratchagar, PMSSS during the visit of Mr. Eric to Devanampattinam hamlet

A staff from PMSSS greets Ms. Sheba Crocker

Mr. Eric Schwartz viewing Permanent Shelters from the roof at Devanampattinam Hamlet

District Collector giving information on Construction of Permanent Shelters

Mr. Gagandeep Singh Bedi, District Collector, Cuddalore explaining about the history of the Collector's Camp Office