Sierra Leone SAVE THE CHILDREN SIERRA LEONE HOLDS EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PLAN WORKSHOP
Natural Disasters are among the several problems the World is currently experiencing. Sierra Leone, for example, has over the years and in recent past experienced floods, windstorms, mudslide, fire outbreaks and outbreak of communicable diseases. Save the Children as a humanitarian organization has been on the frontline helping communities and partners to fight against these outbreaks. It is against these backdrops that the organisation has held a four-day training(22nd-25th October,2019) in Bo Town on Emergency Preparedness Plan for its staff, government agencies, Local Councils,local NGOs and Civil Societies.
The facilitators, De Evans from SCI Sierra Leone, Nathan Paco Mathew from Save the Children America and Koki Gilberto from Save the Children Regional Office East and Southern Africa, carefully took the participants through the International Humanitarian Principles, Core Humanitarian Standards and Save the Children International Humanitarian Standards. The participants were also able to identify Seasonal, evolving and Static hazards and preparedness plans to addressing these hazards.
The representatives from the Office of National Security ( ONS) and Civil Society said the training has helped them shaped their level of preparedness for any hazards.
At the end of the workshop, SCI staff exclusively prepared an Emergency Preparedness Plan for the organisation's next twelve months emergency intervention on specific hazards.
