International Day for Disaster Reduction commemorated by Hasho Foundation in #Chitral

International Day for Disaster Reduction commemorated by Hasho Foundation in #Chitral

By Gul Hamaad Farooqi

CHITRAL: International day for disaster reduction was commemorated by Hasho Foundation at its main office Balach. Sajjad Ahmad Manager AKRSP was chief guest on the occasion while Ghafoor Baig chairman Citizen Community Development network was guest of the hour. Muhammad Khalid of HF briefed the participants regarding their work on disaster risk management. He said that HF is a knowledge based organization which work on 6 sectors as well as disaster risk management is one of the main component of their programs. He said that HF train male and female on disaster risk management that how we can reduce ratio of loss in case of any natural calamity. He said that create awareness among the youth and in this connection they working in 24 villages on community based disaster risk management.

Professor Ajmal Saeed who teaching environmental science in Commerce college that a subject must be teach in every class upto metric level on environment and disaster reduction. Zafar Ahmad of Rescue 1122 briefed about emergency services of his organization and request the people to not waste their time on fake calling of fire or any other emergency. He said Rescue 1122 can be call from phone or mobile in case of any emergency who provide services to all community. He said we can,t stop disaster but we can reduce its losses.

Nigah Hussain Khan Deputy Area Coordinator of ACTED said that we should to play our role in disaster reduction and for this purpose we should to train and educate all segments of society. Sajjad Ahmad said that civil society organizations can  train and educate the people in disaster risk reduction but this is responsibility of state to implement such policy in which public face lesser loss in case of any natural calamity or disaster. Ghafoor Baig talked on disaster on Islamic point of view that each disaster causing by human involvement.

Nizam Ali said that we should to go one step ahead and only awareness is not solution of the problems but we should to focus on sensitization. If we sensitize about the loss or risk of any plan we will adopt such measurement where we face less loss. For this purpose we should to play a vital role and to save the nation from any mega loss. A journalist also raised the question and mostly flood and disaster causing by deforestation and if the government supply electricity free of cost or at least on subsidize rate to its consumer at Chitraal they will use it for heating and cooking purpose as a result burden will be reduced on forest and deforestation will also be discourage automatically. A large number of people participated in the seminar.