The Abu Dhabi Civil Defence Authority, in collaboration with Alef Schooling, has launched the second section of the Bader Instructional Consciousness Undertaking (2025–2029), following the success of the primary section (2021–2024), which considerably contributed to enhancing security and prevention tradition amongst hundreds of scholars throughout faculties within the emirate.
The brand new section of the venture focuses on increasing its scope to incorporate all private and non-private faculties benefiting from Alef, with a complete of 548 faculties, 173 in Abu Dhabi and 375 throughout the opposite emirates. The initiative goals to achieve 180,000 college students in Abu Dhabi and 300,000 college students nationwide, along with coaching 6,000 lecturers in Abu Dhabi and 13,000 throughout the UAE, in addition to directors and faculty security officers. This enlargement strengthens sustainable preventive consciousness throughout the academic surroundings.
The Authority defined that Bader is the primary initiative of its type worldwide, offering an built-in consciousness curriculum that covers all academic phases, from kindergarten to Grade 12. The curriculum embeds security and prevention ideas progressively and sequentially, with interactive bilingual content material addressing key subjects equivalent to evacuation and alarms, first assist, fires, hazardous chemical compounds, and particular person social accountability. New classes might be added yearly, reaching a complete of 13 classes per Cycle by 2029. The venture represents a pioneering nationwide mannequin for embedding a security tradition by schooling, reflecting a dedication to supporting nationwide efforts to construct a aware and succesful era that may shield themselves and their communities, whereas reinforcing sustainable group improvement.
In the course of the first section, 357 out of 372 faculties nationwide participated, benefiting almost 59,000 college students. Greater than 36,000 of them accomplished this system in full, representing 96 per cent of the focused faculties. The impression evaluation examine confirmed constructive outcomes, together with a ten.9 per cent enchancment in college students’ emergency preparedness, a 9.3 per cent enhance of their self-confidence when dealing with emergencies, an 11.2 per cent increase of their sense of security and readiness, and an 11.7% rise of their willingness to unfold consciousness amongst their friends.
The Abu Dhabi Civil Defence Authority (ADCDA) has additionally achieved a sequence of distinguished accomplishments by this modern academic consciousness venture. It obtained the Khalifa Award for Schooling in 2023 for the venture, adopted by the Hamdan bin Rashid Award for Establishments Supporting Schooling in 2024. In the identical 12 months, it additionally gained the Dubai High quality Group – Concepts UAE Award for Greatest Joint Concept, in recognition of its pioneering position in selling a security tradition by superior interactive strategies.
The Authority emphasised that college students graduating from Grade 12 after finishing this system might be outfitted with important life abilities to reply accurately in emergencies, absolutely conscious of security and prevention ideas, and able to spreading consciousness inside their households and communities.