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Education as a tool to curb Jordan’s deadly domestic accidents

14-09-2010

 

Sameera, who lives in the Sweileh neighbourhood in northwest Amman, lost her seven-year-old son after leaving him unsupervised near the stove. “I put the food on the stove and went to hang wet clothes and left my son to watch the food to make sure it didn’t burn. The next thing I heard was my son’s screams, with fire all over his body,” said the 23-year-old mother.
 
Domestic accidents are claiming the lives of more and more children in Jordan’s poor and overcrowded neighbourhoods. For the Kingdom’s Civil Defence Department, providing children with a safe environment is a top priority, and education is the key, under a project financed by an EU programme on Prevention, Preparedness and Response to Natural and Man-made Disasters (PPRD South).
 
This is part of a series of features on projects funded by the EU’s Regional Programme, prepared by journalists and photographers on the ground or the ENPI Info Centre. (ENPI Info Centre)
 
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a109058 ENPI Jordan civil protection (en).v.2.pdf

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