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What
is NDYS?
The
Natural Disaster Youth
Summit (NDYS) is a
year round project in
which K12 students
collaborate and learn
how to save their lives and
reduce disaster
impacts utilizing Information
and communication
technologies.
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History
The annual face-to-face Natural Disaster Youth Summit was first held in
Hyogo
in 2005 commemorating
10th anniversary of
great Hanshin Awaji
Earthquake, Japan and
it is continued.
The past
face-to-face meeting
were Kaohsung, Taiwan
2006, Aichi, Japan
2007, Port of Spain,
Trinidad and Tobago
2008, Kaohsung, Taiwan
2009, Bursa, Turkey
2010, Kaohsung, Taiwan
2011.
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Natural
Disaster Youth Summit 2005
in Hyogo
in
Japan on 25-28th of March. |
Communication
saves lives!
"What
we
can do"
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What
we do?
We
hope, the conference provides an
opportunity to extend
the network of
international
communication or
dialogue on Natural
Disaster Education and
Risk
Management Education
arising from The Hyogo
Framework
for Action 2005 –
2015. Building
the Resilience of
Nations and
Communities to
Disasters. This
initiative called on
civil society
organizations,
schools, volunteer
groups, private sector
all stakeholders to
ensure that disasters
risk reduction is a
national and local
priority.
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the Need of NDYS |
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Mission
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Click here to see the video of NDYS Introduction.
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SLOGAN |
Communication
saves lives!
Build
the safer place to live in for everyone in
this planet |
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To
achieve this goal, we
plan two programs.
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NDYS
program
Main
program
”Global
Disaster Safety Map (GDSM)”
program
Let's
create global disaster
safety map!
Students
will create the Disaster
Safety Map of their schools
surrounding areas. If
connect them all up, we have
a global, disaster safety
map that bring the whole
world together.
More Information
→
GDSM
program and
Past disaster safety maps

The first
Disaster Safety Map
Exhibition
at
Kaohsiung city in
Taiwan
(NDYS2006
in
Taiwan)
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Subsidiary
program
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"NDYS Teddy Bear Exchange and Kid’s
Safety Bag"
program
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Let's
make a
Kid’s Safety Bag!
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Each
school will have a NDYS Little
Ambassador
and send it
to a partner school.
NDYS
Little Ambassador
will be
identify as international student. A school
which is sent it send note which diary is
written, materials which can useful to
understand culture or disaster with it. School
which sends it at first can be taught culture
in other countries by Little
Ambassador.
The set of these activities will be done with
some partner schools and students can
understand culture in other countries and know
enjoyment of international exchange program.
"NDYS
Teddy Bear Exchange and Kid’s Safety
Bag"
program
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National
Fenghsin Senior High School,Taiwan |
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Ershad
Pictures high school, Iran
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◆The
reports and the results of their activities
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The
annual face-to-face Meeting>
It
is hoped that NDYS 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 NDYS
Declaration
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The annual face-to-face Meeting
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Building
a Global Disaster Reduction
Education Network
This
project will directly contribute to the quality of
lives of anyone who live on this planet by sharing
the information of how to reduce with unexpected
disasters and
building Global Disaster Reduction
Education Network
utilizing ICT(
Information
and Communication Technology).
By sharing those knowledge and information,
we can prepare against future disasters and take actions.
Let us keep continuous efforts and transfer the efforts to the
next generation.
The goal of the NDYS Project
was to use the lessons learned from the Natural
Disasters and develop a worldwide network of
the disaster prevention, recovery, and relief
education.
NDYS will build a global disaster
Reduction network utilizing Information and Communications
Technology (ICT).
Communication
saves lives!
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NDYS & UN Sustainable development Goals
The “Natural Disaster Youth Summit”
started the activities to solve the
problems of "sustainable development
goals (SDGs)" target 11 & 13, which
the United Nations newly targets to
solve toward 2030.
As a solution to the SDGs, it is
broadly expected to improve the
public awareness and enlightenment
about the importance and necessity
of international cooperation of
disaster reduction education from a
global perspective.
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