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To celebrate National Youth Day, Krungsri Auto took hearing-impaired students from the Setsatian School for the Deaf Under the Royal Patronage of His Royal Highness Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn to see the 3D documentary ‘Born to Be Wild’.
Named “Krungsri Auto So Nice”, the edutainment initiative aims to promote a new entertainment-education (edutainment) experience to the underprivileged. This time, the students enjoyed the event at Krungsri Imax Theatre at Siam Paragon Shopping Centre.
 
Children discuss role in preventing disasters

Over 50 children from 13 countries of the Asia-Pacific met last week at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok to celebrate the International Day for Disaster Reduction and discuss how they can play a more active role in preventing disasters.
Children are among the most vulnerable groups affected by disasters as seen recently with the floods in Asia, but they are also the best “risk reducers” when they are taught and informed about disaster-risk reduction from an early age.
“As  we  have seen in recent days in the newspapers, on television, or with our  own  eyes  on  the streets and fields around us, disasters disrupt the lives  of  millions of children, threatening their rights and their needs,” said  Noeleen  Heyzer,   United  Nations  Under  Secretary-General  and executive  secretary  of Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, in her opening remarks. “Children and young people are particularly vulnerable. An estimated 66 million children are affected by disasters every year, and their vulnerability is expected to increase. They are, in fact, valuable resources and partners for effective risk management.”
The children discussed the Children’s Charter and to step-up disaster risk reduction. The  Charter, adopted at the last Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, proposed five main actions to reduce children’s vulnerabilities from disasters, including improving the safety of school buildings, integrating disaster-risk reduction into the curriculum of children and involving children in the preparedness measures.