Ramjo, Griffith City Council And Red Cross Offer Workshops To Help Local Residents Prepare For Future Natural Disasters
Friday, 02 Feb 2024
RAMJO, Griffith City Council and Red Cross offer workshops to help local residents prepare for future natural disastersEmergencies can happen anywhere and at any time and often leave significant and long-term impacts.
With this in mind, residents in the Griffith Local Government Area will have the opportunity to become beter prepared for emergencies through free Australian Red Cross Rediplan workshops being held in Griffith and Yenda.
The Riverina and Murray Joint Organisation (RAMJO) and Griffith City Council have engaged the Red Cross to facilitate the workshops as part of a Disaster Risk Reduction Fund (DRRF) project administered by the NSW Reconstruction Authority and jointly funded by the Commonwealth and New South Wales governments.
The RediPlan workshops will help community members begin their own household emergency RediPlan and provide them with the knowledge and tools needed to continue preparing themselves, and the people most important to them, for emergencies.
“One of the aims of the DRRF project is to build community preparedness for times of disaster. We saw an opportunity to work with the Red Cross to help residents create RediPlans, and they have enthusiastically come on board to facilitate the workshops”, said Emily Sharp, Project Manager at RAMJO.
Cr Doug Curran, Griffith City Council Mayor, said, “We’ve seen the broad and long-lasting impact of storm events and flooding on our communities recently, and we want to help our residents prepare for future emergencies by considering different emergency situations, what they should do to prepare, and how they will respond”.
“Taking action prior to an emergency has long been recognised as a way to reduce the impacts of disasters,” Australian Red Cross Emergency Services Regional Officer Kate Johanson said. “We know that having a plan helps people cope during and after a disaster because they’ve already thought about how they will react and feel if an emergency happens.”
Community members are encouraged to atend one of the Red Cross RediPlan workshops in the local area which will be held at the following locations and times:
• 20 February 2024 – 6.00-8.30pm – Griffith Community Centre, Olympic Street
A light lunch/supper will be provided and all participants will go in a free raffle to win an emergency kit worth $200. Community members can RSVP to RAMJO Project Manager Emily Sharp on 0436 370 722 or Emily.Sharp@ramjo.nsw.gov.au.
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