Why to choose STEM? (Disaster Risk Reduction)

What's with Disaster Risk Reduction?

         Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) aims to reduce the damage caused by natural hazards like earthquakes, floods, droughts and cyclones, through an ethic of prevention.

         Disasters often follow natural hazards. A disaster's severity depends on how much impact a hazard has on society and the environment. The scale of the impact in turn depends on the choices we make for our lives and for our environment. These choices relate to how we grow our food, where and how we build our homes, what kind of government we have, how our financial system works and even what we teach in schools. Each decision and action makes us more vulnerable to disasters - or more resilient to them.

     Disaster risk reduction includes disciplines like disaster management, disaster mitigation and disaster preparedness, but DRR is also part of sustainable development. In order for development activities to be sustainable they must also reduce disaster risk. On the other hand, unsound development policies will increase disaster risk - and disaster losses.

        When your in STEM, Disaster Risk Reduction is one of your special subjects. This is good for us because we are going to be taught how to respond well in case of disaster, and emergency.

Reflection

Disaster risks are everywhere,

They threaten lives and form despair,

They are in all places at once,

They’re hard to stop and to prevent.

Disaster risk education,

Way to safety and protection,

It teach us to protect ourselves,

From any kind of disasters,

Luckily, in this semester,

We learned of all DRRR,

We can all save millions of lives,

From this education we got,

You’ll only learn DRRR,

When you are enrolling at STEM,

So when you like you’re saving lives,

Join us as we go to STEM,