Guantanamo.- The Disaster Risk Reduction Week, which begins this Monday until May 14, underway atypically in Guantánamo Province, marked by a change in the traditional way of preparing the population to face hazardous situations.
Gretter Guerra López de Queralta, head of the department at the provincial government’s disaster risk reduction management center, reports to the Cuban News Agency (CAN that unlike previous years, when two or three drill exercises were carried out, the current economic situation requires a rational use of energy and fuel.
Therefore, she explained that activities will focus on preparedness workshops held directly in communities and on sanitation campaigns in neighborhoods, businesses, and workplaces, instead of the previous large-scale drills.
The official highlighted that a key part of the day will be the use of family guides implemented in the region to learn how to respond to earthquakes, rural and urban fires, coastal flooding, and gusts of winds. These tools emerged from vulnerability reduction projects supported and funded by the United Nations Development Programme.
