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SSEEAAMMEEOO--JJaappaann EESSDD AAwwaarrdd Theme for 2012: Education for Disaster Risk Reduction Supporting Partners:

Submission Form of SEAMEO-Japan ESD Award The last day for submission of entries: 25 August 2012

To participate in the SEAMEO-Japan ESD Award, please submit the information of your school’s activity/programme on Education for Disaster Risk Reduction in English language by using this Submission Form.

The digital format of this Submission Form can be downloaded from the SEAMEO website: www.seameo.org or requested by sending an email to the email address: seameojapan.award@seameo.org.

The guidelines for submission of entries and the judging criteria are detailed in page 13-15 of this document.

Schools must ensure that the SEAMEO Secretariat receives their entries by 25 August 2012. More information, please contact the SEAMEO Secretariat, Bangkok (telephone number: +662

391 0144, fax number: +662 381 2587 and email address: seameojapan.award@seameo.org) PART I: Details of Your School 1. Name of your school: Ben Tre City Secondary School

2. Full address: 23 Le Qui Don Street, Ward 2, Ben Tre City, Ben Tre Province, Vietnam

3. Postcode:

4. Country: VIET NAM

5. Telephone number (country code+city code+telephone number): 84 (075) 3829484

6. Fax number (country code+city code+fax number):

7. Name of the Head Master/ Principal/ School Director: Nguyen Anh Dung

8. Name of Teacher Coordinator: Vice- principal: Pham Thi Thuy Hang

Nguyen Thi Phong Lan

9. Email address:

10. School website (if available): 11. Educational level (Such as Kindergarten 1 to Grade/Year 9): Grade 6 to Grade 9 12. Number of teachers in your school: 96 13. Number of students in your school: 1.718.000 14. Please provide the name of teachers and students who were/have been involved in the

planning and implementation of this school activity/programme on Education for Disaster Risk Reduction.

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Teachers: 42 a) Nguyen Thi Quynh Mai b) Tran Thi Phuong Trang c) Nguyen Thi My Dung d) Vo Thi Bich Ngoc e) Do Thi Thanh Tuyen f) Nguyen Thi Loan g) ….

Students: 171 a) Nguyen Ngoc Dong Thi _ Class 7/9 b) Tu Nhat Quang _ Class 9/11 c) Nguyen Thục An _ Class 8/7 d) Pham Nguyen Phuc Toan _ Class 6/9 e) Pham Thanh Tung _ Class 8/6 f) Vo Tuyet Ngan _ Class 9/7 g) ……

PART II: Information about the School’s Activity/Programme on Education for Disaster Risk Reduction The information of part II from no.1 to 11 should be no longer than eight pages long (A4 type, Arial font, size 11 point). A half to one page A4 of the project summary should be included. 1. Title of the school’s activity/programme on Education for Disaster Risk Reduction The name of the trip: ” SMALL SOLDIERS OF SACRED FOREST” 2. Summary of the activity/programme (a half to one page A4) The trip was made on 14 and 15 January 2012, five vehicles with about 250 teachers and students. Our location is central to the Department in southern Tay Ninh province, Ben Tre to about 250 km. Name the car is named after the precious woods: Christmas home, plug it back, shower, sand, ...

During the trip, we will hear the notes from the tourist guide on where we come, ask questions, take the test to find out how the importance of forest flora and fauna and for human life, watching and enjoy the beautiful scenery and fresh air of nature. Besides education students also life skills such as sense of discipline, team spirit in the competition: competition tent, cakes, costumes, participate in traditional games, sports competition , camp fire. The trip was so interesting and exciting that people do not want to go home and desire for early trips like that. 3. Background information or reasons why the school initiated this activity/programme Although locality where we live weather conditions quite favorable not badly affected by the storms, floods, cyclones, we noticed protection of forests and protection of flora and fauna ecosystem is important and urgency also consistent with the practical requirements and local conditions to contribute to reducing damage caused by natural disasters, and the students can expand the propaganda in the mass to protect nature. Recognizing the importance of protecting forests, protecting animal and plant ecosystem is critical and urgent also consistent with the practical conditions of localities.

One of the activities we found most effective to help students learn of natural fact that we organize annual trips combine resources to learn about the revolutionary base areas, historic sites to contribute love for the homeland and visit the camp in the forest famous in South Vietnam as Nam Cat Tien forest, Can Gio forest monitoring, forest Ta Thiet, South Central Office, ... 4. Objectives/goals of the activity/programme

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Students are trained life skills: cooking, baking cakes, set up tents. Join the implementation of traditional games, sports competitions. Teachers and students articipate in a friendly and warm atmosphere.

After such trips, students participate in the trip will post trip reports over the radio program

of building schools for students to know the good results of the trip which reminds people to know the price value of forests and have the responsibility to protect and recreate it so that it becomes defense system certainly helps us to avoid natural disasters or eliminate the severe damage caused by natural disasters. 5. Period of time when this activity/programme was/has been implemented January 14,15 2012 6. Activities (Short-term actions and strategies of implementation of the short-term actions) The trip was made on July 14 and 15 January 2012, five vehicles with about 250 teachers and students. Our location is central to the Department in southern Tay Ninh province, Ben Tre to about 250 km. 7. Resources used for implementing the activity/programme Funding from the funds of the parent activity funds were the school parents associations active in the beginning of the school year, from the regular army and from the trip participants. 8. Monitoring and evaluation mechanism and results 9. List of partners, local government bodies, companies or development agencies who

participated in the planning and implementation, including their roles in the activity/programme.

Name of Partners Roles or contributions a) Nguyen Anh Dung - The Principal team leader b) Pham Thi Thuy Hang - Vice Principal deputy group c) Do Cong Phu - union president deputy group d) Ha Minh Man - secretary Communist Youth Union of Ho Chi Minh

member

e) Che Duy Khuong - The total charge of the Young Pioneers team

member

10. Benefits/impacts of the activity/programme to teaches, students and the community Through the trip, students are trained life skills: cooking, baking cakes, set up tents. Join the implementation of traditional games, sports competitions. Teachers and students articipate in a friendly and warm atmosphere

After such trips, students participate in the trip will post trip reports over the radio program of building schools for students to know the good results of the trip which reminds people to know the price value of forests and have the responsibility to protect and recreate it so that it becomes defense system certainly helps us to avoid natural disasters or eliminate the severe damage caused by natural disasters.

11. Plan for sustainability and plan for the future

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Plan for sustainability: To maintain the power trips and field visits at least annually or once a year, selecting suitable sites highly educational. Plan for the future: Looking ahead there will be specific plans to organize seminars, competitions learn about nature protection, disaster prevention. Education student nature protection awareness, build schools and shelter increasingly green, clean and beautiful 12. List of attachments such as a copy of learning/ teaching materials, samples of student

worksheet, manual, etc. Attachment 1) …..(File name)………. Attachment 2) …………….. Attachment 3) …………….. Attachment 4) ……………. Attachment 5) …………. … Attachment 6) ……………. 13. Photos related to the activity/programme (The school can provide the related photos as many

as you can) Photo1

Photo 2

The principal teacher at the revolutionary base in the forest

Students visit the monument

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(Caption in English) Female contestants traditional cakes Photo 3

Students take part in traditional games and sports (Caption in English) Photo 4

Students compete how to make a tent quickly School boys take part in rice-cooking contest and attractively. (Caption in English)