Observance of the Community in the Implementation of School Disaster Risk Reduction and Management in Calamba City

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Calamba West District High Schools are the schools in the Division of Calamba City that is situated near the West Valley Fault ended at Matang Tubig in Canlubang. It caters more than seven thousand students both junior and senior high school, and more than a two hundred teaching and non-teaching personnel. Every quarter, the schools were joining the National Simultaneous Earthquake Drill (NSED) in cooperation with the Barangay Quick Response Team in Calamba City. In the conduct of the aforementioned drill, teachers, non-teaching personnel, students, and PTA officers participated in the said Nationwide quarterly earthquake drill. It was observed that during the conduct of the drill, many of our students and even some teachers were not seriously participated in the drill despite the different campaigns and series of lectures to the students with regards to the proper conduct of the activity.

METHODS

The descriptive research design was used to depict the participants in an accurate way. More simply, descriptive research is all about describing people who take part in the study. The researchers will be using the 100 students and 50 teachers from 5 junior and senior high Schools of Calamba West District. The researcher gathered information through the use of the survey questionnaires that he made.

RESULTS

The researcher concluded that the students and employees of WEST 5 district assess the implementation of SDDRM the same way. With this in mind, it implies that the school shows no bias in disseminating important information and protocols to its students and personnel. Furthermore, the efforts of the school were to meet the four thematic areas of SDRRM and it was seen by both of the groups of respondents. The researchers concluded that the schools, including all the members of its community, are very likely to survive a disaster.

DISCUSSIONS

The study showed that there is a significant relationship between the assessments of the respondents on the implementation of SDRRM and their readiness level towards a possible disaster that may happen. With this discovery, the researchers conclude that the readiness level of a member of the CVLIS community towards possible disasters depends on his/her assessment on the implementation of SDRRM. The community and its members will eventually share the same trait of being ready for the possible disaster that may happen and have the competency to adjust and bear the impacts of a disaster.