Dear Justin, Anshu, David, John, and the List,

I forwarded these messages to Garry de la Pomerai from the Coalition for 
Global School Safety www.interragate.info/cogss who is not on this email 
list.  His response is appended below.  Feel free to contact him directly, 
possibly keeping us informed by cc:ing this list or at least by sending a 
periodic update to this list regarding progress.

I would also suggest keeping Lori Peek http://lamar.colostate.edu/~loripeek 
and Marla Petal [log in to unmask] informed because they are leading some of 
the work in this area.  Finally, the authors of the book "Promoting 
Community Resilience in Disasters: The Role for Schools, Youth, and 
Families" http://www.alibris.com/search/books/isbn/0387238204 have done 
excellent work in New Zealand and would be interested in others' work.

Thank you for your work in this area and best wishes for its continuation.

Ilan

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Subject: Re: Disaster Education Material
Sent: April 30, 2007 4:37:37 PM

Dear Ilan, Justin and Anshu et all,

Anshu, you have raised a valid point and somthing that was certainly raised 
at the Ahmedabad 1st International Conference on School Safety in January. 
Maybe it was by yourself, as the conference was an organised event by SEEDS 
India, with the Government plus with COGSS input.

Yes i am aware that the area of Children with Disabilities is only now being 
addressed, but first there is a data/ material collection project already in 
progress, sponsored by the ISDR/ UNESCO which Marla Petal is undertaking, 
whom i am sure will respond seperately and assist you in coordination of 
data, and along with us all in COGSS assist you in developing and promoting 
this special and needed sector.
I will certainly include this within our workshop at the IDRC Harbin, China 
in late August. Let us all liaise meanwhile.

so i lead onto...

Justin, all works in this field can only stregthen awareness in the field, 
so i personally encourage all research and data mining and collation to any 
website.

Might i suggest that you also liaise with Marla Petal, as there is a 
tremendous amount of data, materials and initiatives already successfully 
being used in the field. I'd hate for you to either duplicate or indeed miss 
an opportunity. Much of the material is in the physical format of games and 
models, which is sometimes difficult to translate on a data sheet. Languages 
and cultural differentials of approach are also a challenge.

Within the COGSS forum there are scores of initiatives on various aspects of 
DR Education, training / drill and contingency planning within schools. 
COGSS will be presenting and developing two key arreas of this work at the 
IDRC Harbin, China in August. I'll let Marla reply and explain her workshop 
proposal and about her data collection project work.

The Other workshop is about the drafting of a very 1st stage document / 
leaflet for distribution to all vulnerable Schools, outling the basic simple 
proactive physical actions that the Community/ School can take in making a 
building safer externally and internally; and to introduce basic contingency 
plans and simple drill procedures for varying hazard types.

This is, I stress, to maximise coverage of schools prior to them being 
formally approached by Agencies and Governments within any ongoing Project 
work.

So, possibly i also see your research as important and complimetary to this 
smaller project, which lies within the bigger Picture of both COGSS works 
and that of the UN-ISDR / UNESCO and the many other excellent International 
Agency initiatives.

I look forward to your response and encourage you to develop your idea in 
coordination with existing works.

regards

Garry de la Pomerai

"Global Schools Project" Co-ordinator for S.A.R.A.I.D
'There is no competition - just a need for urgency & committing to the long 
haul'

COGSS international representative
(Coalition for Global School Safety) dedicated web page for COGSS on the 
www.interragate.info/cogss site

representative member for COGSS on the UN-ISDR Knowledge and Education 
platform
(UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction) www.unisdr.org
Please view here the project briefs & links

representative member for COGSS on the UK AGNDR
(The UK Advisory Group for Natural Disaster Reduction)

a co-ordinator for:
The First Responder 'inTERRAgate' Data Base project
(in conjunction with Benfield Hazard Research Centre & UCL) 
www.interragate.info

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