A two-days workshop for the training of local disaster management activists of the district youth groups of the National Fisheries Solidarity Movement (Youth Movement for Environmental and Social Change) was held in Negombo on January 14/15.
The training workshop was held with the aim of creating a group of youth who can act as an intermediary group between the government disaster management mechanism and the community in need and work for the rights and welfare of the disaster-affected people.
A group of 27 people from Monaragala, Matara, Galle, Kalutara, Gampaha, Kurunegala, Polonnaruwa and Trincomalee districts participated in the training program.
Mrs. K.S.N Dias of the Disaster Management Unit of the Negombo Divisional Secretariat, A.M.N Sumathipala and and D.A.L.S. Mr. De Silva, officials of the Disaster Management Unit of the Gampaha District Secretariate Office contributed as resources persons for the program.
The resource persons expressed their willingness to provide support for the registration of the trained rural activists as a community disaster management group members in the respective regional secretariat offices and to provide support according to the need in the future awareness activities.
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