Disaster Management and Research Training in Guangxi

In order to strengthen capacity of participants to plan and implement health interventions in local community, a knowledge-transfer workshop was conducted in Nanning of Guangxi Province during 29-30 April 2014, in collaboration with a local NGO, Nanning True Love Holistic Care Social Work Service Centre. It was part of the train-the-trainer project funded by The Chinese University of Hong Kong. In this workshop, 16 volunteers from five local NGOs participated. They were trained in the following areas: principles of public health programme planning, general public health problems and related interventions, basic skills of first aid and code of conduct for voluntary work.