Save the Children helps children adapt to climate change

Save the Children has started a project to support 11,200 children in Tien Giang Province to learn about climate change and how to adapt to the extreme weather.

 Through trainings and extra-curriculum activities, Save the Children will provide the children in 15 primary schools and middle schools in the province with basic knowledge and skills to better prepare for disaster risks and to cope with climate change consequences.

 The children’s organisation also helps develop teaching materials for and train teachers of the schools to teach the children about the subject.

 In co-ordination with Tien Giang Province’s Department of Training and Education, the project is expected to scale up through the province as part of Save the Children’s community based climate change adaptation programme in Mekong River Delta.

 The two year programme (2012-2014) is to support children and their communities to plan and manage the impacts of climate variability and to increase the government’s body’s responsibility in meeting the needs of vulnerable children and communities.

 “Save the Children’s teaching materials about climate change are very informative and useful. They are well designed and suitable for children to read and learn”, said the head of a primary education unit in the province, Dang Van Hung.