MINERD informs schools of protocol to prevent damages during the hurricane season

MINERD informs schools of protocol to prevent damages during the hurricane season
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic June 8, 2012

The Ministry of Education (MINERD) informed 18 Regional Offices of the protocol or instructions for the 2012 hurricane season.This protocol contains the steps that school principals and their management teams must take before, during and after a tropical hurricane hits.

The protocol is part of the actions being promoted by MINERD, through the Office of Program Impact, in regards to the 2012 hurricane season, which started this past Friday, June 1^st…

The protocol is part of the actions being promoted by MINERD, through the Office of Program Impact, in regards to the 2012 hurricane season, which started this past Friday, June 1^st. The formation of between nine and fifteen tropical storms and four to eight hurricanes has been predicted for this season.

The Ministry explainedthat these actions are designed to protect the lives of people, especially children and young people in schools, given its awareness of the Dominican Republic’s location within the path of tropical hurricanes.

Itreminded that the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) has mandated that school facilities serve as a refuge for people living in vulnerable places, in case a part of the country is hit by a hurricane or tropical storm.

The protocol encourages district and regional school leaders to pay attention to the warnings being issued by relief agenciesin relation to tropical hurricanes, and to the instructions being issued byMINERD headquarters, through its corresponding offices.