Oxfam will facilitate community-based disaster risk management training in two East Coast Demerara communities from 9 am tomorrow.
The organization, which set up a base in Guyana following the 2005 Great Flood, has been working since then to mitigate the suffering in areas vulnerable to flooding.
According to a press release from Oxfam, the training sessions will be held from 9 am at the Guyana Marketing Corporation building in Golden Grove and Graham’s Hall Primary School in Cummings Lodge.
By the end of the workshops, Oxfam hopes, participants would have grasped the basic concepts of disaster risk management, its definition and the need for their involvement.
It is also hoped that they would have been engaged with disaster preparedness measures.
The training is part of an Oxfam/GB/ECHO partnership project aimed at “improving the preparedness and coping capacities of 25,000 men, women and children living in flood-prone rural and urban areas located in Region Four on the East Coast Demerara”. The project started in November 2007 and will end after 15 months. It is being implemented in 20 East Coast communities.
