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Child-friendly Spaces in Disaster Shelters for Child Disaster Victims

  • Crisisonomy
  • Abbr : KRCEM
  • 2020, 16(2), pp.183-201
  • DOI : 10.14251/crisisonomy.2020.16.2.183
  • Publisher : Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Praxis
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Policy > Public Policy in general
  • Received : December 27, 2019
  • Accepted : February 18, 2020
  • Published : February 28, 2020

Boreum Kim 1 Seol Mi Oh 1 Deok Hui Choe 1

1부산대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study introduced the concept, role, and cases of child-friendly spaces providing customized services to child disaster victims who have difficulty in protecting themselves and insufficient resilience due to their physical, psychological, and developmental characteristics. In Nepal, Japan and China experiencing earthquakes with a magnitude of 7.0 or higher, international NGOs and the government worked together to provide integrated services with experts in child-friendly spaces in disaster shelters. Child-friendly spaces were designed to help children minimize damage from disasters and recover early through psychological treatment, counseling, play and education as well as child-tailored services such as food, relief goods, medical and sanitation services. The 2017 Pohang earthquake in South Korea without child-friendly spaces lacked goods, spaces and services specifically for children in disaster shelters. This study suggested that the detailed regulations for disaster shelters should be established considering the characteristics of children and the child care areas should be provided in shelters. In addition, it is necessary to prepare a manual to resolve problems with child psychological support and to train professional experts who can protect and educate children in disaster situations.

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