Students disucss evacuation plans in Jakarta

Global Connections and Exchange (GCE) high school students from the SMA Lab School Rawamangun in East Jakarta, Indonesia hosted a five-hour Natural Disaster Preparedness Workshop in their school’s Media Resource Center on December 15, 2007, thanks to funding from a mini-grant.  The workshop brought together students from several schools and an orphanage to learn about how to prepare for an earthquake.  Participants were shown how to devise safety strategies, locate safe places to take cover, identify evacuation sites beforehand, and prepare a safety kit with food and first-aid supplies.  The students were selected through a competitive grant process to receive a $200 mini-grant to implement the community service project as part of the iEARN Global Connections Community Youth Service Club.  The mini-grants are a new feature of the Global Connections program this year, and are intended to help students develop leadership skills while impacting their communities.