Saritsa Foundation recognizes the critical role of youth in creating a responsive society to cope with disasters. Towards this mission, Saritsa Foundation in partnership with Deen Dayal Upadhyay Petroleum University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India is organizing awareness and preparedness workshops for University staff and student’s on 15th February 2014. The team of experts will prepare the participants to be awareness raisers amongst youth to sensitize Disaster Risk Reduction at societal level. It is an ongoing mission by Saritsa Foundation to build a momentum to mainstream the people to share information, expertise and local resources as well as imparting education and practical training to make participants to mind map risks to their community and develop viable response mechanism. It is being implemented with minimal resources with commitment, accountability and innovative partnerships.

1. SARITSA FOUNDATION (SARITSA CHARITY TRUST)
A Mobile University For Disaster Risk Reduction & Climate Change – Mission
National Security.
"Reach to People, Talk to People and Prepare People“
Builds capacity to reduce risks from disasters and climate change by
advocating and practicing. People Centered, People Led, and People Owned
Resilience – Investing in Life Saving Education.

2. Saritsa Foundation recognizes the critical role of youth in
creating a responsive society to cope with disasters.
Towards this mission, Saritsa Foundation in partnership
with Deen Dayal Upadhyay Petroleum
University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India is organizing
awareness and preparedness workshops for University
staff and student’s on 15th February 2014. The team of
experts will prepare the participants to be awareness
raisers amongst youth to sensitize Disaster Risk Reduction
at societal level.
It is an ongoing mission by Saritsa Foundation to build a
momentum to mainstream the people to share
information, expertise and local resources as well as
imparting education and practical training to make
participants to mind map risks to their community and
develop viable response mechanism. It is being
implemented with minimal resources with

3. Methodology
1. Explaining to the youth participants, how prone are
their areas to manmade and natural disasters. How
they can prepare to minimize losses?
2. Raising awareness for Early warning for disasters in
their regions and their response in way of moving out
from scene of disasters, access to evacuation and
transportation. It is to be sensitized that all
communication channels be used by youth for timely
response. Their networking on mobiles with family
members, relatives and control rooms will be very
useful to receive and adhere to early warning to act.

4. 3. Family and community preparedness to make provision
for their needs in an emergency and making plans for
protecting them as well as moving out of
premises, evacuation and transportation.
4. Defining routes, transportation and access to
shelters for evacuation. Guiding youth to identify
areas for food, water, medical help, and, use of
latrines for affected people.
5. Provisioning for protecting women and girls from
sexual violence.

5. 6. Encourage youth to use local resources to protect and
organize periodic mock drills with practical training for
sustainability.
7. Guiding youth to organize search and rescue teams for
immediate first aid and evacuation.
8. Preparation of guide lines to be made use in
emergencies by local administration as well as
making family and community plans is important.
9. Youth be included, in a meaningful way, in each and
every meeting, plan and decisions.

6. Colonel N M Verma Director
General, Prof. Smita Kadam
Executive Director and Colonel T.
Sundaram Senior Faculty of Saritsa
Foundation prepare youth to
protect from disasters.

8. Mock Drills
for
Earthquake

12. Mock Drills
for Floods

17. Mock Drills for
Terrorism and
Bomb Blast

20. Mock Drills
for Fire

23. First Aid &
Evacuation

27. The Participants with Experts of Saritsa Foundation

28. How happy the youth were about their learning?

31. Please Contact/Donate
saritsa@vsnl.net OR saritsafoundationindia.in@gmail.com,
http://www.youtube.com/user/saritsafoundation
Mob- 09323157377,
Tel- 91 22 24366370
Fax - 022- 24370138
Website- www.saritsafoundation.org (Only Mozilla Firefox)
Donation/Support by donors/supporters be sent on name of
Saritsa Foundation(Saritsa Charity Trust) by Cheque/Draft to
Corporation Bank, Mumbai Worli Branch India. SB Account No.
017400101011299. IFSC : CORP0000174. OR

32. Transfer of the Donation/Support on name of Prof. Smita
Kadam, Executive Director through Western Union Money
Transfer,
Mumbai India.
Address for Western Union Money Transfer –Prof. Smita
Kadam
National HQ –
Flat No.-3, Pankaj CHS, S R Keer Marg, Bhandar
Lane, Mahim West, Mumbai – 400016.
Email for information - saritsa@vsnl.net
Tel. – 91 22 2436 6370
Mob - 91 9870008717
PayPal Account shall be intimated shortly.

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