Biodiversity conservation organisation, Aaranyak organised five capacity building workshops for over 200 community members on administration of first-aid in three human elephant conflict (HEC) affected villages located in Meghalaya and Assam during February 24 to 26.
Publicity secretary of the organisation, Bijay Sankar Bora said these workshops are part of Aaranyak-British Asian Trust’s initiative of promoting human elephant coexistence through community empowerment and implementation of effective HEC mitigation strategies, which is supported by Darwin Initiative.
The organisation collaborated with the Meghalaya State Disaster Response Force and the Civil Defence Department of Jorhat to conduct the workshops that aimed to build capacity of local community members to secure lives in the event of incidents of human- elephant conflict as well as other incidences of exigency that may occur in their life lived in HEC-affected areas.
He said the workshops are modelled to impart hands-on training on first aid administration in time by community members to save the life of the needy. The participants are sensitised as to how first aid administration turns out to be a life saviour in remote areas till proper medical facilities can be accessed for the needy, he added.
The capacity building workshops were held in Borogobol, Jamdamgre and Bordubi of West Garo Hills and Sargunaraj and Hatishal Chapori villages of Jorhat. Altogether 103 women and 112 men from these villages were provided training of first aid in these workshops.
A team of seven officials from the Civil Defence Department of Jorhat and six SDRF personnel from Tura in Meghalaya conducted the training workshops.
