This is a project in which children will learn the importance of human lives and how to survive from Natural Disasters with students who have experienced earthquakes and other disasters. 

In 1995, people in Hyogo experienced the Hanshin-Awaji earthquake and suffered much damage. We realize the fear of natural disasters.

   We can not stop natural disasters, however, we can decrease the damage from them. This is what we learned through our experience. 

Board of Education of Hyogo has been putting in serious efforts to tackle the “New Disaster Prevention Study” since the Earthquake. They have published these guide books for the schools.

Children of Hyogo have been studying the “New Disaster Prevention Study” for almost ten years through their terrible but significant experiences of Hashin-Awaji Earthquake. The goal is to use the lessons we learned from the Earthquake and help the children grow to be wonderful adults with voluntary mind.

The new iEARN project “Natural Disaster youth Summit 2005” will start from September 2004.  Children from all over the world and Japanese children will share the study of disaster prevention and importance of living.  Our motto is “Think about the importance of human life!  ”  remembering the Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake day.     

 1  Summary

 2  Agenda

  For six months, youth will study together using ICT and adapt the “Hyogo Declaration of the Earthquake Youth Summit.”  After that ,they will continue to work using the worldwide network of the disaster prevention education.  Through the six month study, they will work on the roles of the schools and youth at the time of earthquakes and recovery, the youth’s points of view work on the reducing damages and recovery from the damages.

  3  Participating Schools

  The core group will be the youth who have experienced earthquakes in countries such as Japan, Taiwan, Turkey, Iran, India, the United States, Armenia, Indonesia, Australia, and Argentina.

  Fifteen schools from Japan and ten from overseas will participate.  They will be divided into five groups and discuss in each group using ICT.  The schools in Japan, mainly from Hyogo Prefecture, will be recruited by the end of August.  

 4  Procedure

  At each stage of the project, the students will do self introduction and discussions using the Internet video conferences.  The reports are done on the Forum.  Also, they will build homepages and gather, share, analyze and send information.

  At the last stage of the project, they will hold “Earthquake Youth Summit 2005 in Hyogo” and present the project result using the international video conference and adopt the “Earthquake Youth Summit 2005 Declaration.”  The representative of the Japanese youth will give it to the head of Hyogo board of education , Mr.Masayoshi Takeda. At the end, the video Summit and the report of the project will be completed.  They will continue to keep the network of the youth on the World Disaster Prevention Education.  

  10^th Earthquake Memorial  

The event on 18th was a great success.　　　　Report

  1  Summary 

  2  Agenda

   This is the Natural Disaster Youth Summit in association with the UN Disaster Prevention Conference.

   Natural Disaster Youth Summit 2005 in Hyogo　　　more

 1  Summary

2  Agenda

      As explained in Section 2, it is hoped that Natural Disaster Youth Summit 2005 Project can be concluded by gathering together representatives of the participating youth who would report the results of team discussions and then all together compile and adopt the Natural Disaster Youth Summit Declaration.

Natural Disaster Youth Summit 2005 in hyogo  Timetable  (Plan)

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