By Chris Schuepp UST-KAMENOGORSK, Kazakhstan, 17 October 2012 –
In Missing you, Erkezhan Kalibekova, 16, describes the loss of
her parents, who died in a flash flood in this Central Asian
nation. She wishes they could have known what to do so they
could have survived – and seen her grow into a teenager. |'Solid
foundation', by Madina Tyhmetova, 14, Kazakhstan, 2012. This
appeal for townspeople to build more durable buildings was
created at the 2012 Kazakhstan OneMinutesJr. workshop on
Disaster Risk Reduction.| Madina Tyhmetova, 14, shows images of
her town in Solid foundation. She ends the video with an appeal
for people to build more durable buildings. Children raise
voices through video-making workshop Both girls have recently
undergone a five-day OneMinutesJr. video-making training course
on disaster risk reduction (DRR). Following the premise that
there are no ‘natural’ disasters, only natural hazards, DRR aims
to reduce the damage caused by such natural hazards as
earthquakes, floods, droughts and cyclon