CHITRAL: The Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (formerly Focus Humanitarian) held a school safety day at the Aga Khan Higher Secondary School in Chitral.
The gathering was informed that the school safety day was initiated with an international safety conference organized by the government of Pakistan in collaboration with the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN). It was announced that from now onwards the school safety day would be held every year at the national level.
School safety is a holistic strategy based on the disaster risk reduction strategy, the participants were informed. On the basis of decades-old experience, the former Focus Humanitarian Organization had prepared the school safety strategy.
A video shown on the occasion highlighted ways and means to save lives during natural disasters such as earthquakes, avalanches and floods.
A quiz completion among schoolchildren was also held on the ocasion and the winners were given awards at the end of the function.–Muhkam Uddin