Evacuation Route in Cipinang Besar Utara

(Baca Versi Bahasa Indonesia)

When flood happen, community definitely needs evacuation route. High stream has caused significant difficulties in evacuation effort. Based on discussion between community and ACF, they need a series of pole with rope attached in it to form evacuation route. ACF facilitate the process of developing evacuation route by providing the pole and the rope. The rope will be tied to the pole and a floating body. The floating body will keep the rope afloat and showing the mark of the rope in case the water gets higher. On this process, community provide the land and human resources to do the physical work.




The construction process was started on Friday, January 11th 2008. Rabinarayan Rabinarayan Gouda (DRR Regional Adviser) and Moustapha Harouna (DRR Program Manager) has come to launch the process. The whole process was predicted to be completed by 4-5 days. On the same day, 5 groups of student came to the spot. As part of their journalistic training facilitated by ACF, they came to cover the process and interviewed the actors.