It is 22:52 now and I have just finished my paper which is provisionally entitled: 'How children's vulnerability in disasters can be reduced by their involvement and empowerment through community based education and disaster prevention.' I have outlined briefly what vulnerability is and how it relates to disasters before examining flood hazard mapping in Japan which does not appear to include children and youth in its programme, before looking at two case studies in depth that illustrate how children's vulnerability can be reduced through their involvement and participation. One project was carried out on the island of Luzon in the Philippines and the other was the Plan El Salvador project.
Both seem to be very interesting and more importantly seem to be making an impact on reducing vulnerability across all sectors of the communities in which they have been carried out in. I am a little tired now, so I am going to go to bed with the new(ish) Terry Pratchet book (called 'Thud') and zone out for a bit!
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