The World Disaster Reduction Campaign "Disaster Risk Reduction Begins at School", organised by UNESCO and UNISDR, has given a worldwide impulse to efforts aimed at encouraging the integration of disaster risk education in school curricula in countries vulnerable to natural hazards and the safe construction and retrofitting of school buildings to withstand natural hazards.

This publication  of 2007 provides an encouraging account of initiatives carried out during the Campaign. It contains 35 good practices and lessons learned as concrete examples of how to make children safer in their classrooms and educate them about disasters.