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Improving School Earthquake Safety in Rural High Andean of Peru

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Grassroots women from Chocos Community at the High Andean of Peru is training in seismic and resistant construction

Disaster risk reduction is important to save the life of the population. The trained people in DRR will be able to put in practice the tools and strategies built by the community and get a resilient community.

As much as the population is prepardeness and learn about how to preserve the environment and nature to avoid risk disasters caused by the climate change, we can create a disaster resilient society and planet.  

Our organization is preparing for the 2013 Global Platform to present the work we are doing at the high andean of Peru. Our work is focusing on getting resilient rural communities. The Mayors from the local governments and community are launching their rural communities as resilient ones. The retrofit of the School at the Chocos community is a demonstrative pilot program that the population took as example to spread in their homes.

The project was implemented woth the participation of Estrategia NGO, the Stanford University, GeoHazards International from Palo Alto in San Francisco, The catholic University of Peru. The housing Ministry representaive named the project as an innovative one and an example of social inclusion. The trained women and men get employed in communities around to spread the seismic and resistant work implementation with the supporting of the Lima Provinces Region. The community got important results and improvement. In March 2013 the state agency COFOPRI will solve the titling problem and give them an opportunity to access for the subsidies housing program that benefit the rural communities. The trained people formed by women and men also point out the productive programs of food security, improvong the land for agriculture and inctreasing the production of vegetables, potatoes, corn, some other cultivations that the peasents produce from their ancestres.

The students of the school also participated in the training process. The training focusing in the importance to get a safe construction and the use of correct earthquake resistant materials to get a safe construction.