Focus was on the elderly recently when the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) in collaboration with UNICEF hosted a developmental interactive seminar to commemorate International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR).
In keeping with the theme for the day ‘Older Persons and Disasters: Resilience for Life’, the forum was designed to provide for the sharing of approaches and methodologies between the elderly and the youths to identify strategies for disaster reduction risk through which it is hoped a significant portion of the population will be resilient to the vulnerability of disasters, a GINA release said.
The programme was held at the Ocean View Convention Centre and delivering the keynote address, CDC Director Chabilall Ramsarup said serious effort must be