YEREVAN, MARCH 20, NOYAN TAPAN. Lately UNICEF jointly with UN International Secretariate for Reduction of Disasters Consequences and Central Asia's Initiative for Protectiveness Against Earthquakes had organized a two-day discussion on the subject "Schools Protected from Earthquakes." As it was mentioned in the report provided to Noyan Tapan from UN Children's Fund Armenian Office, the goal of the discussion was to present how schools and communities can be more prepared during earthquakes. Representatives of RA Ministry of Education and Science, National Institute of Education, Academy of Crisis Management, as well as headmasters and teachers of a number of schools took part in the discussion. "Disasters, including earthquakes, may take place at any moment and in any place. Realizing their consequences for children, we are obliged to prepare in advance for resisting them," representative of UNICEF Sheldon Yett said. In his words, the international experience and the destructive earthquake which took place in 1988 showed that schoolchildren most of all suffer during earthquakes.

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