Less Fearful, More Active: The Future
The potential for further earthquakes in Turkey: Highest risk High risk
Medium risk Low risk Lowest risk. Map © UNICEF Turkey 2001
UNICEF and MONE reviewed the project in September 2000 and developed new plans based on previous experience and results of the 1999-2000 school year. Proposed activities would include both basic and advanced training for school counsellors. Project manuals and other materials have been reviewed by national and international experts in order to ensure their efficacy and have been refined where possible.
| Counsellors reached | Teachers reached | Students reached | Parents reached | Total population reached |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 289 | 13,235 | 178,424 | 40,424 | 232,548 |
| Counsellors | Teachers | Students | Parents | Total population reached |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 200 | 1,000 | 59,000 | 19,000 | 79,200 |
| Counsellors | Teachers | Students | Parents | Total population |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 300 | 361,000 | 2,050,080 | 620,000 | 3,033,380 |
The next step for the Psycho-social School Project is to reach those children of the Marmara region who have not yet benefited from the interventions and to expand the project to another six provinces in Turkey. An estimated sixty thousand children and twenty thousand parents and some one thousand teachers will be reached through the Psycho-education programme and a further one hundred will benefit from Group Counselling activities. While MONE will be responsible for the overall implementation of the programme, UNICEF will continue to provide training, materials and technical and financial support until the end of the school year 2001-2002.
Having proven to be a valid and effective intervention, the next step is for MONE to expand the programme nationwide. The GRC network is already in place and, providing training in the components of the Psycho-social School Project, the GRCs will be perfectly ready to cope with any disasters or traumatic events as part of a disaster preparedness plan.
Note: Within eighteen months of the publication of Less Fearful, More Active the eastern province of Bingöl suffered an earthquake measuring almost 6.4RS in the early hours of the morning on 1st of May, 2002. This was the second tremor of such magnitude to strike the area in 32 years -- more than seventy aftershocks were recorded in the hours following the earthquake.
177 lives were lost and 520 people were injured. The worst hit building was the Çeltiksuyu Boarding School where 85 students and one teacher died.
There are more details of the response to the Bingöl earthquake in the UNICEF Turkey Press Centre and the Summer, 2003 edition of Say Yes, our quarterly newsletter.
The fully illustrated text of Less Fearful, More Active is available for download in print-ready pdf format. [PDF 1.25MB]
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