Antioquia Presente

Educating children in Colombia about hurricanes! The colombian islands of San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa Catalina were hit by two hurricanes (Eta and Iota) in November 2020, causing extensive damage to infrastructure and affecting more than 6,000 people. The population has suffered from mental health issues such as post-traumatic stress, depression, and anxiety due to […]

Educating children in Disaster Risk Reduction

Educating children about floods from Argentina to Malaysia! COPE Floods book in Argentina (Spanish) One of the members of the IARDD network @carladellana, together with her colleagues from the Community Risk Management Technician of the UNLP Faculty of Social Work, created a workshop at the Punta Arcoiris picnic area in Punta Lara to educate children […]

COPE at COP27

Time flies! Last week, with the support of the World Meteorological Organization, we held a side event at the Science for Climate Action Pavilion during the 27th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP27) in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. At this event, we proudly launched our new COPE Heatwaves book, which was relevant to this year’s […]

WMO and COPE

International Disaster Risk Reduction Day World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and COPE Disaster Champions celebrated International Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Day, highlighting the importance of ‘Early Warning and Early Action‘, WMO’s 2022 theme. This celebration discussed ways of reaching the youth joining forces.  COPE has worked with WMO since 2020, and since then, WMO has acted […]

Social Impact –

Engaging children and youth around the world from Bali to Argentina! Volcanoes book in Bahasa. Last month, COPE, UNESCO and the Tanjung Benoa Disaster Risk Reduction Forum collaborated to deliver the COPE Volcanoes books to enhance the resilience of children and young people in the Benoa community in Bali. Students in public elementary and secondary […]

GPDRR 2022

COPE recently participated at Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction. in Bali, Indonesia May 23-25th. The event, which was run in a hybrid format, was organized by the UNDRR and the Government of Indonesia and attracted approximately 4000 participants from 185 different nations, all gathering in Bali to examine initiatives to shield local populations from the […]

UNICEF Learning Passport

We are very excited to announce our partnership with UNICEF’s Learning Passport, to reach more children far and wide! The COPE Disaster series was uploaded onto the Learning Passport online platform.   The UNICEF Learning Passport is a digital education programme that provides digitalized curricula, textbooks, and supplemental content across multiple languages. The education model was created […]

COPE and IARRD

We joined forces with IARRD COPE joins efforts with the Instituto Argentino para la Reducción de Riesgo de Desastres—IIARDD (The Argentinian Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction) to deliver material to children about Disaster Risk Reduction. We are excited to share the news that we have collaborated with IARDD for the distribution of the Spanish translation […]