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Project name

Natural Disaster Youth Summit





NDYS2005   Natural Disaster Youth Summit 2005 in Hyogo, Japan on 25-28th of March.

NDYS2024  Natural Disaster Youth Summit 2024 in KOBE, Japan on 13th of July by Online

NDYS Video
Communication saves lives! " What we can do"




Summary
 
The Natural Disaster Youth Summit (NDYS) is a global project promoted by the NPO JEARN which started 10 years after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, when it participated in the 2nd UN World Conference on Disaster Reduction Public Forum in Kobe (held in January 2005).

This is a global project promoted by the NPO JEARN. The project aims to mitigate the damage caused by natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, wildfires, floods, hurricanes, landslides, droughts, etc.) occurring around the world through exchange and cooperation between youths around the world, thereby protecting the lives of people around the world from future disasters. To date, schools from 63 countries and regions have participated in the project.

Through digital-based 'international collaborative learning', the project aims to contribute to the realisation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Reduction and the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) while building networks and deepening friendships among youth from around the world. Information is widely disseminated overseas from Kobe, an area hit by the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake.


Natural Disaster Youth Summit 2025


Theme: Climate Change and Disaster Reduction , Mitigation, and Reconstruction


By experiencing various disasters, different knowledge and information to reduce their impact are accumulated in local communities. By sharing this knowledge and information, we can prepare against future disasters and take actions to combat climate change and its impacts. Let us maintain continuous efforts and transfer these efforts to the next generation. Our ultimate goal is to enhance awareness of the impact of natural disasters on families, schools and local communities around the world through young people's actions. NDYS will build a global disaster management education network utilizing Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Let us communicate with each other and contribute to the healthier and safer planet.

~ Abnormal weather : Solve the problem by global collaboration and Save our lives! ~


Programs  

NDYS programs : SDGs linked to activities

NDYS has three programs.
You can select one or more programs which fit to your school curriculum.

In addition to these programs, NDYS is preparing opportunities to present the results of its original activities.The positive activities of youth from around the world will help raise disaster awareness among the many people living there.
1. "Global Disaster Safety Map” program

      Let's create global disaster safety map!
Students will create a Disaster Safety Map of their school’s surrounding areas or your neighborhood. Students will do research on the environment near their school and put this information in the map, including where is safe, where is dangerous and places they love and are proud of. 

Add your ideas of how to help disabled people too.  Send the photo of completed disaster safety map to ndys@jearn.jp.
You may put your map on the
Gallery of iEARN Collaboration Center, too. Students will have discussion
on the zoom meeting.
 


The first Disaster Safety Map Exhibition at Kaohsiung city in Taiwan (NDYS2006 in Taiwan)  
 


"NDYS2015 in Toyota"
Orientation & Disaster Safety Map Making

 

2.“NDYS Teddy Bear Exchange and Kid’s Safety Bag” program
   
As a subsidiary program, the NDYS Teddy Bears (NDYS Little Ambassadors) will be exchanged between partner schools to strengthen the friendly bond at the NDYS conference. Each School can make Kid’s Safety Bag (Emergency bag), too. 








 3. "Healing Power of Music from Trauma after Disaster" program

As you may know natural disasters leave behind long-lasting and severe trauma. Music can have a beneficial effort in helping people recover from Natural Disaster.  It will be wonderful, if we can share such music. As we believe the healing power of music, NDYS has decided to collaborate with iEARN Taisho-koto project from 2015. We would like you to introduce the music of your country which heals people’s hearts and makes people happy and alive. It will be ideal if you can send us your video or upload it onto YouTube. We will practice and play music through videoconference once a month.




Music performance: SMP Islam Al Azhar 44 - Bekasi, Indonesia (NDYS2022)


NDYS welcome the original activities done at your school or community. If you have any original activities, please introduce them on the iEARN NDYS materials (iEARN Collaboration Center).
Students who want to tell their experiences, lesso
ns or suggestions learned from the past natural disasters can put messages on the iEARN NDYS Materials (iEARN Collaboration Center)
.
More Information http://ndys.jearn.jp



Facilitators  

Yoshie Naya, Japan 

Pavle Tvaliashvili, Georgia

Wizar Putri Mellaratna, Indonesia


Nimet Atabek, Turkey

Kazuko Okamoto, Japan 


Languages   English, Japanese   

 

Student Age Levels    5-11 (Primary), 12-14 (Middle), 15-18 (Secondary)  

Dates   September 2024 - September 2025 

 


Possible classroom activities   

Communication through Zoom meeting, Disaster Safety Map Making, NDYS Teddy Bear Exchange, Kid’s Safety Bag Making, Writing your experience of natural disasters.

 

Watch the video of NDYS to learn the meaning and value of NDYS:

NDYS Video (English)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R455F7otPiE  
                      (Japanese)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfiPG8frExc



Introduce yourself and write your comments on how you feel about the video in the iEARN collaboration center. 

iEARN Collaboration Center    https://iearn.schoology.com/

NDYS2025 Zoom meeting    https://ndys.jearn.jp/vc.html


The reports and the results

Send us the photos of your map and goods to inform your activities and your country.