Punjab Emergency Service signs MoU with District Teacher Educators as master trainers

Lahore:The Director General, Punjab Emergency Service (Rescue 1122) Dr. Rizwan Naseer and Program Director of Directorate of Staff Development (DSD), Punjab Ehsan Bhutta signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work jointly in the best interest of public for capacity building of District Teacher Educators as master trainers so that they may regularly train school teachers in lifesaving skills. In this regard, the Head of Community Safety Wing of the Punjab Emergency Service Ms. Roqiya Bano Javed and Course Coordinator Humaira Siddique also signed the document as focal persons for implementation of this program.

According to the MoU, the Punjab Emergency Service (Rescue 1122) shall organize basic and advance training of lifesaving skills for District Teacher Educators (DTEs) in all Districts of Punjab. Furthermore, the District Teacher Educators qualifying for Basic training shall be imparted with Training of Trainers. Accordingly, the Directorate of Staff Development shall provide all logistic support for basic and advance training of DTEs, who shall constitute Community Emergency Response Teams after enrolment as volunteer with Rescue 1122 and shall work as Rescue Scouts in case of major emergencies and disasters. Both organizations shall closely coordinate for follow up and sustainability of School Safety Program and further training of teachers in schools. All teachers’ trainings conducted by District Teacher Educators (DTEs) to the extent of School Safety shall be monitored by Rescue Staff.

While expressing his views on this occasion, DG Rescue Punjab Dr. Rizwan Naseer said that teachers are the real mentors of students; therefore, they can best deliver in character building of students to make them socially responsible citizens so that they can play their part for prevention of increasing number of emergencies and development of healthy, resilient and safer communities. He further said that once all teachers started training their students in lifesaving skills and character building, only then we can bring about a social change in our society. Mr. Ehsan Bhutta also spoke on this occasion by saying that DSD shall work shoulder-to-shoulder with Rescue 1122 to achieve aforesaid purpose.