Good practices

Let's Overcome Disabilities Together Against Disasters

The project aims to develop and deliver an accessible disaster education module and outputs for people with physical, visual, and hearing disabilities, considering the difficulties that people with disabilities face in accessing educational resources. The educational materials allow people with disabilities to easily access the information thanks to the accessibility features. It is important that people with disabilities have equal access to public resources, educational resources, and disaster information, and that people with disabilities are included in the disaster management system.The project aims to develop and deliver an accessible disaster education module and outputs for people with physical, visual, and hearing disabilities, considering the difficulties that people with disabilities face in accessing educational resources. The educational materials allow people with disabilities to easily access the information thanks to the accessibility features. It is important that people with disabilities have equal access to public resources, educational resources, and disaster information, and that people with disabilities are included in the disaster management system.

Year(s): 2016-2018

Target group(s): People with physical, visual, and hearing disabilities & Educators working with these people.

Website or other online channels: https://disaster.anadolu.edu.tr

Methodology

For the training module, which is the first in the countries where the project was prepared by Eskisehir AFAD, 75 training videos were made showing the proper behaviors that physically, visually and hearing-impaired people should use before, during and after earthquake, fire and flood disasters. The videos and other educational materials were developed with universal aids in mind, such as audio description, sign language, subtitles, Braille, and contrasting colors. It was provided for use by people with disabilities in Polish, Czech and Bulgarian, especially in Turkish and English.

Type of product

Paper-based material Online resource Video clips / Films Course / Training

Brief description of the outcomes

Project results include short film on awareness of disabled people during disaster, online learning modules, research reports and practice simulation module.

Impact on target groups / Transferability potential

According to satisfaction survey results which was conducted on beneficiaries who have used and benefited from the project results.

97% of beneficiaries indicated that the project results were useful to them.

93% of beneficiaries indicated that the project results and outputs were accessible to them. 97% of beneficiaries indicated that the project's events and trainings were useful to them.

84% of the beneficiaries stated that they have never participated in an EU Erasmus+ project before.

Promoter of the initiative: ESKISEHIR IL AFET VE ACIL DURUM MUDURLUGU

Country: Turkey

Languages available: English Turkish