PESHAWAR
Five-day teacher’s training workshop on the role of PTCs in “Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and School Safety Risk Assessment” on Monday aimed to enable teachers and facilitator’s knowledge on the formation and responsibilities how to create a school safety plan with the help of the community and keep the school running in the time of a disaster.
The training was conducted by the Participatory Rural Development Society (PRDS) in collaboration with an international volunteers organization ‘Volunteer Services Overseas’ and ECW here at University Town.
As many as 66 community volunteers and teachers including females were trained on the roles and responsibilities and safe functioning of schools in different districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa including Peshawar, Nowshera and Charsadda.
The workshop was attended by the Deputy District Education Officer Peshawar, Dr. Raina Gul, trainers Khalida Zaib, Amir Ayub, Aftab Ahmad, Hajra Masood, Maryam Shah, Shakeel Ahmad, Kishore Ali and executive director PRDS Syed Ali Shah.
The management of PRDS told the participants that the workshop is especially designed for the teachers of state-run educational institutions developing the capacity of teachers, parents and communities to cope with natural and man-made disasters and reduce the severity of damages caused by these disasters.
While expressing their views regarding workshop, teachers Salma, Samreen Ajab Khan, Ibadullah and Attau-Rehman said that PTC can play a vital role in highlighting and addressing local issues of the school as well as improving class room environment and raising the standard of education.
“This joint venture of PRDS, VSO and ECW will help empower the students, teachers, parents and the community to take autonomous actions to restore schools and education in the event of natural and man-made disasters”, they said adding that without motivating and involving the children in healthy activities, the desired academic goals cannot be achieved. The workshop concluded with the distribution of certificates among them.
