Coping with Covid19 - Awards Ceremony in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, for the winners of the “Tsunami Ready Youth Art Competition in the Caribbean”

Within the framework of the Union European ECHO funded project "Strengthening Capacities for Early Warning and Response to Tsunamis and other Coastal Threats", the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO delivered the recognitions and awards to three students from the Polytechnic Professor Santos Rommel Cruz from León of the municipality of San Felipe de Puerto Plata. They were national winners of the Regional Visual Arts Contest for young people “Tsunami Ready”. This activity was postponed due to sanitary measures and restrictions due to Covid-19.  With all due measures the activity has now been completed, thans to the perseverance of national and local partners.

Sponsored by the European Commission's Disaster Preparedness Program and coordinated by UNESCO's IOC, the contest brought together arts students ages 14 to 16 from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, the Dominican Republic, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago. The objective was to raise awareness about the danger posed by tsunamis for coastal communities and cities, as well as to promote a better understanding of the associated geological phenomena and emergency response systems of the countries participating in the project.