Past disaster evidence has shown that children are the most vulnerable group when it comes to losing lives and children also make the best advocates to raise awareness and communicate early warning signals. Concept of disaster and its impact on the society can be reflected very clearly from children's perspective. They not only depict the damage and loss but are able to successfully draw the complete scenario of immediate relief and rehabilitation.
 
In Commemoration of UN-International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction-08, two cities of Bangladesh, Cox's Bazar & Jamalpur celebrated the event on the 15 & 20 Oct respectively, with the active participation of local government, NGOs, CBOs and community members. Both the cities have realized the importance of mainstreaming children in DRR. On this occasion, local government had invited school children to participate in a drawing competition with DRR as the broad theme. This event recognized that Children are very aware of Disaster and Risk Reduction measures.

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