MARIGOT: This Thursday, October 13, 2022, an exhibition and a conference debate were held at the Lycée Robert Weinum in La Savane as part of the National Resilience Day “Tous résilients face aux risques”.
From 9 am to 12 pm, all the classes of the school, 231 students in total, were made aware of the risks and the need to reconnect with nature. The National Resilience Day (NRD) aims to raise awareness, inform and acculturate all citizens to the risks that surround them, in a logic of practical exercises, and to contribute to the preparation of all good behavior in case of the occurrence of disaster, including the new generation.
For the occasion, the media were invited to attend the event at the end of the morning, in the presence of Vincent Berton, Delegate Prefect of the Northern Islands, Harry Christophe, Vice-Rector and Head of the National Education Department of Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin, and Olivier Saunier, Principal of the Robert Weinum High School. Several information stands were set up in the schoolyard, manned by the fire department, the Red Cross, and the territorial police. The conference was given by two speakers, Carole Berthod, for earthquakes, and Jean-Noël Degrace, whose presentation on cyclones was particularly interactive and interesting. The operation “Tous résilients face aux risques” (All resilient in the face of risks) was led by Fabienne Monmarson, head of the Security Department and assistant to the Director of Cabinet Services of the Prefecture.
If Prefect Vincent Berton notes a spirit of responsibility and discipline on the part of the people of St. Martin, he advocates, through the national day of resilience, a better awareness of risk without resulting in a feeling of fatality: “We must be aware that we do not control nature but continue to adapt to its reality with the possible risks by developing more and adopting individual behaviors such as learning about weather forecasts and protecting themselves from bad weather, this can avoid tragedies.
Recent agreements between the state and local radio stations as well as the installation of warning sirens participate in the culture of risk with continuous communication on the issue. The choice to hold this information morning in a school underlines the importance of educating Saint Martin’s youth about natural disasters, an awareness that high school students will be able to spread within their own homes because resilience and risk awareness is a matter that concerns all generations.
Harry Christophe, the vice-rector, was pleased with the morning’s action and addressed, during the press briefing, the issue that particularly affects young people, namely that of misinformation that circulates and is relayed on social networks after a natural disaster. For Principal Olivier Saunier, the morning session “All resilient in the face of risks” was intended to be the spokesperson for the National Day of Resilience which continued in the afternoon with a public conference debate at the CCISM.
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