Disaster Recovery and the Road Ahead - IGNOU

EXERCISE 5
WHAT ARE THE STEPS THAT CAN BE UNDERTAKEN TO:
REHABILITATE AGRICULTURE AFTER FLOODS
REHABILITATE INFRASTRUCTURE AFTER CYCLONES
1.6 SOCIAL REHABLITATION
Social rehabilitation is also an important part of disaster
rehabilitation. The vulnerable groups such as the elderly,
orphans, single women and young children would need
special social support to survive the impact of disasters.
The rehabilitation plan must have components that do not
lose sight of the fact that the victims have to undergo the
entire process of re-socialization and adjustments in a
completely unfamiliar social milieu. Thus, this type of
rehabilitation would include various activities that you may
take up:
Source: gees.usc.edu/geek/rediff.com
Establish village level education committees
Resurrection of Educational Activities
Give constant counselling to teachers and children
Encourage children to attend the schools regularly
Provide writing material, and work books to
children
Make children participate in all activities pertaining
to resurrection of normalcy in the school
Try to inculcate conducive attitudes to enable the
students to play a positive role in self-development
Identify local groups that could conduct smooth functioning of education activities
Rehabilitation of the Elderly, Women and Children
Source: Sustainable Development/elrst.com
Identify familiar environs to rehabilitate elderly,
women and children
Make efforts to attach destitute, widows and
orphans with their extended family, if that is not
possible then identify foster families
Organize regular counselling to strengthen the mental
health of women and children
Initiate various training programmes to make the
women economically self-sufficient
Source: NGO Work/jaipur.olx.in
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