While northen parts of Thailand are struggling with floods and landslides, in Aranyaprathet District, Sa Kaeo Province, local communities have been attending disaster risk reduction (DRR) training from World Vision.
The area, east of Bangkok, near to the border with Cambodia, like many in Thailand, regularly sees devastating floods each year.
World Vision International (WVI), the humanitarian aid, development, and advocacy organisation, has developed a community training program to help locals understand the risks of flooding as well as help them to recover from flood events more quickly. According to WVI:
The project has three components – supplementary livelihood, rice seeds distribution, and a DRR training. “We helped affected families with livelihood opportunities; provided village farmers with rice seeds, and conducted a training-of-trainers to community leaders and teachers so they can disseminate the information to neighbors and students,” says Sunantha Tingtang, Aranyaprathet Area Development Programme Officer. A first aid and health checkup simulation drill was also among the significant capacity building elements of the training.
