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Emergency training begins in the educational centers of Gran Canaria

23/04/2025
Emergency training begins in the educational centers of Gran Canaria

The initiative is part of the Ministry of State for Security’s Master Plan for Coexistence and Improvement of Safety in Educational Centres and their Environments, which is coordinated by the Government Delegation in the Canary Islands for the 2024/2025 academic year and which includes measures to raise awareness, prevent and detect risk situations in the educational field of the Archipelago.

The Schamann Secondary Education Institute, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, this week hosted the first of the training actions on the risks of civil protection and emergencies that are launched on the island of Gran Canaria, within the framework of the Master Plan for coexistence and improvement of security in educational centers and their environments coordinated by the Government Delegation in the Canary Islands in collaboration with the different Public Administrations for the 2024/2025 academic year and which includes measures of awareness, prevention and early detection of risk situations in the educational field of the Archipelago.

The students of 3rd Compulsory Secondary Education at IES Schamann have received training talks on forest fires from Jorge Naranjo, civil protection and emergency care technician from the General Directorate of Emergencies of the Government of the Canary Islands, accompanied by personnel from the Civil Protection Unit of the Government Delegation. The objective of the activity is to improve the knowledge, skills and attitudes of children and adolescents about risks likely to generate emergency situations.

Under the title of ‘Civil Protection: Risks and emergencies in the educational center and its environments, the importance of prevention and self-protection’, the program tries to provide the new generations with the necessary tools to know what to do in the face of a catastrophe through the Civil Protection and Emergency technicians of the National Civil Protection System as a whole.

The project includes three separate areas aimed at students and a specific area for AMPA and the educational community. Each area includes a common part on general aspects of self-protection in life in general and a specific part on: earthquakes, forest fires, floods and risks on the coast.

The training is provided by the facilitators who are the volunteers themselves, members of the REMER or the local, island, regional and state Civil Protection and Emergency services; who have been trained at the National School of Civil Protection to transmit this knowledge through an active and participatory methodology with the youth population.

This program is available to schools that request it as a step prior to the mandatory implementation of this training from the next academic year 2025-2026. The application must be sent to the following email address of the High Inspection of Education of the Government Delegation in the Canary Islands: plandirector.canarias@correo.gob.es

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Photos

Jorge Naranjo, civil protection and emergency care technician of the General Directorate of Emergencies of the Canary Islands Government, during the talk (JPG · 140.55 KB)
Rita Domínguez (i), head of the Civil Protection Unit of the Government Delegation in the Canary Islands, together with Jorge Naranjo, at the IES Schamann (JPG · 188.78 KB)
First training action on civil protection risks and emergencies of the Master Plan of the Government Delegation in the Canary Islands (JPG · 224.26 KB)