Legarda, UN Ask: How Safe Is Your School?

Senator Loren Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Climate Change, and Ms. Margareta Wahlstrom (3^rd from left), Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, encourage schoolchildren, teachers and communities to assess the safety of their schools with the launch of the international program, "How Safe Is Your School?" at the Philippine Senate on November 21. They were joined by UNISDR Chief of Advocacy and Outreach Dr. Jerry Velasquez (1^st from left), UNDP Country Director Mr. Tohishiro Tanaka (2^nd from left), Department of Education Undersecretary Dina Ocampo (2^nd from right), UNISDR consultant Mr. Manny de Guzman (1^st from right), and students from the Pasay City West High School.