Al-Barjas stresses importance of highlighting women's roles in disaster reduction

Chairman of the Kuwaiti Red Crescent Society (KRCS), Barjas Hamoud Al-Barjas, stressed the importance of shedding light on the role of women to reduce disasters by enhancing stricken society's potentials in order to bear and recover from such afflictions. In a speech on the occasion of the International Day for Disaster Reduction, Al-Barjas said that this event is significant to increase measures of danger reduction in development plans and businesses. United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has set October 13 as the International Day for Disaster Reduction in order to make people aware of how to take measures to reduce their exposure to risk, KRCS Chairman said, noting that this year's theme is (Women and Girls: the inVisible Force of Resilience). Al-Barjas expressed his gratitude and appreciation for women and girls who improved their communities by making them capable of coping with disasters, noting that women in Kuwait have an honorable role in volunteer work. In addition, he said that the goal of this celebration is to make women aware of taking risk reduction measures, in addition to strengthening the role of girls to face disasters by providing them pieces of advice. Furthermore, Al-Barjas called on civil society organizations, media and governments to work on adopting a national strategy for disaster management and integrating it into national and regional plans. He also called on promoting disaster management and confrontation programs at various levels, noting that KRCS has achieved, over the years, a remarkable development in that field. Al-Barjas concluded by saying that UNGA honored the participating schools on the occasion of International Day for Disaster Reduction, in addition to the assembly's female volunteering pioneers and the participants in the event's competition.