Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
REGION III – CENTRAL LUZON
SCHOOLS DIVISION OFFICE OF NUEVA ECIJA
SDO-LICAB ANNEX
EXEQUIEL R. LINA HIGH SCHOOL – SHS
POBLACION NORTE, LICAB, NUEVA ECIJA

Lovely V. Layog E. R. L. H. S

Grade 11- STEM

Disaster risk is widely recognized as the consequence of the interaction between hazard and the
characteristics that make people and places vulnerable and exposed. We all know that disasters cannot be avoided,
but their consequences can be lessen by planning, exercises and preparedness. Us as a young people not only need
to understand the nature of society’s response to disasters, but also how to react to reduce the risks for a disastrous
event. We should be educated in a way that offers us the adjusted knowledge and develops our capacity for crisis
management and preparedness and ensure the readiness for future emergencies. In our age now we should practice
to participate in various risk management and risk reduction programs because it demonstrated better knowledge
and understandings on security issues and measures that we are going to promote a better preparedness in our
surroundings and home environment.

When I do a research the studies shows that young people who participating in various activities before,
during, and after a disaster or a major incident, have a better ability to handle the situation practically and mentally.
In order to handle a disaster situation five different interventions/actions should be promoted; one is a sense of
security, second is peace, thirds is a sense of self- and group effectiveness, fourth is solidarity, and last is hope. These
measures are considered necessary in order to experience a sense of protection, support and resilience, which
together are necessary to get greater resilience. All of us, teenagers, adults, and children’s (if possible) must be
aware of what natural hazards are we going to face in our own communities so that we should know in advance
what specific preparations to make before an event and what to do during a hurricane, earthquake, flood, fire, or
other likely event, and what actions to take on its outcome.

As I said earlier if we participate in some activities we will know how to act in every disasters or major
incident that will happen to us. We have here the most common of transferring knowledge to young people in crisis
and disasters can be described in four different strategies; number one is the promotion which focuses on achieving
uniform, and large-scale impact through messages such as publications like billboard, TV shows, presentations, web
pages and social Medias. Second is learning by doing it, this focuses on engaging young people like us who is
addicted in any forms of games by now, this is the discovering of the problem and ways to solve them by using a
scenario play. Third is the informal education which focuses on short lectures or maybe meetings like this, it is the
way to stimulate thinking and engage youth in discovering the problems and find appropriate measure in order to
obtain a wider perspective. And last is the formal education which focuses on introduction and integration of
disaster management and risk reduction into school subjects. Education aims to increase emergency preparedness in
schools, enhance individual skills, increase the understanding about the involved authorities’ actions and
responsibilities, provide support and opportunities for young people to take responsibility in emergency situations,
increase the opportunities for the recruitment to these professionals, increase equality and reduce exclusion in some
areas and increase understanding of the psychological effects of an event and the need for follow-up. We can help
the adults in the midst of a disaster, we can lessen the outcomes of hazards, we just need to be teach by them so
that we can learned and help them when they needed a help from us.