COPE is a series of beautifully illustrated not-for-profit books, aimed to increase the disaster resilience of children and endorsed by the United Nations Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).
Their disaster story book series covers natural hazards ranging from floods to earthquakes, wildfires to cyclones, the books provide coping tools, preparedness, and relatable stories in an imaginative and easy-to-understand way. Each book is online, free and is tranlated into 20 languages.
Through the lives of 4 orphan children, Candy, Ollie, Ping and Eddy and under the guidance of Grand Mistress Fu, the COPE squad embark on journeys of discovery into the world of disasters.
The COPE Squad’s mission is to educate children from all over the world, so they can become COPE Champions to act as role models in their community.
Call to Action:
- Participating and supporting efforts to teach children disaster risk reduction to all children is the first step to creating a disaster safety culture.
- Disaster risk reduction is not just for grown-ups it is how a community passes on its lessons learned and brings up a new generation of child inclusive disaster readiness.
- Explore the resources. Consider using them in your community.
- NPDC will be adding this resource to our curated list under children and families, and international resources.
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