CDC holds workshop to prepare disabled persons for disasters

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) in collaboration with the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday held a workshop for 27 persons on the introduction to disaster risk reduction and persons living with disability.

A release from CDC said Colonel Francis Abraham, Deputy Director General of the CDC, in his opening address highlighted the importance of planning for and including persons living with disabilities (PWD) and disability issues into the national disaster risk reduction framework. He declared