Safe schools now: Protecting every child from disaster and climate risk

🏫 When disasters strike, children’s education is one of the first casualties — and the impacts can last a lifetime.

This video highlights the urgent need to make schools resilient and ensure children are active participants in disaster risk reduction.
From Guatemala to Brazil, students, educators, and governments are showing how inclusive planning and safe infrastructure protect both learning and lives.

📚 Over 400 million students faced climate-related school closures in just 18 months.
🏠 Safe schools mean more than drills — they require resilient buildings, smart planning, and support systems that can adapt and recover.
🧒 Children aren’t just beneficiaries — they are drivers of change, influencing families, communities, and even national policy.

Let’s protect their education, amplify their voices, and give them the tools to lead. Because when we invest in children’s resilience, we invest in everyone’s future.

Every Day Counts, Act for Resilience Today.
#GP2025 #ActForResilienceToday
Visit the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2025: https://globalplatform.undrr.org/

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About UNDRR:
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) has a big ambition: to help decision-makers across the globe better understand and act on risk. At UNDRR, we believe there is no such thing as a natural disaster. A natural hazard, such as a hurricane, earthquake, tsunami, or flood, only becomes a disaster when it impacts a community that is not adequately protected and whose population is vulnerable as a result of poverty, exclusion, or social disadvantage. We envision a world where disasters no longer threaten the well-being of people and the future of the planet. Sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda cannot be achieved without working towards the goal of building resilience.

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