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• LORATO KHOBETSI
The Disaster Risk Management Division of the Hardap Regional Council, in collaboration with the Hardap Regional Office of the Ministry of Information and Communication, organized an awareness tour two weeks.
The establishment of constituency structures aims to ensure that residents can manage disasters, as well as reduce the impact of disasters.
Information exchange sessions were organized to target local communities. government advisers, traditional authorities, farmers' unions, non-governmental organizations and local residents to establish local disaster risk management committees.
"The consultations were very successful and the participation was very good, for example, we not only held these stakeholder consultations, but we also targeted schools, where we showed them videos about how disasters happen in our various communities and how to prevent them, "said Petrus Skrywer According to him, it is essential to establish constituency structures because the government will publish them after the documents have been sent to the office of Prime Minister.
The committees will be responsible for overseeing all the reactions and preparation of the different groups that they are responsible for minimizing the impact of disasters.
One of the most disasters frequent in the Hardap region is fire, natural or other resulting from human error
A family of four lost all his belongings in an inc endie that would have been caused when a cell phone was charged on a According to the owner, Karlien van Wyk, she forgot to unplug the cellphone charger when she left to go to town, to go back to the house and find his house engulfed by fire. There was no one at home when the fire started.
In an effort to help reduce the impact of disasters such as fires, the Maltahöhe Village Council recently decided that the local fire truck would be parked at the firefighter's. closer to the community, for a faster response.
* Lorato Khobetsi is an information officer at the Ministry of Information in the region of Hardap
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