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TRAINING FOR TRAINERS COURSE

How to keep volunteers active and motivated during the peace time

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What is one of the most important thing for people living in a community ?

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The sense of belonging to the community!

The persons feel important for their family, for the friends, for the entire community. In the community they share the language, the way of life, the food, the same interests, and so on.

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What is the most important thing for a volunteer belonging to a civil protection group?

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The sense of belonging to the group, team working and feeling useful in its group!

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To keep volunteers active and interested, it is necessary to have motivated members of a group that must be: a respected organization with highly trained and effective members providing valued and appreciated support to the emergency services and the community, an organization that is fully integrated into emergency planning arrangements, an organization whose members are proud to serve the public on a purely voluntary basis and where there is a strong demand for membership.

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Number of volunteers Time

E v e n t s

During the emergencies, many people are available to help rescuers but, we loose them when the emergency is finished. Only if they are well trained and committed in the peace time, these people will be faithful to the group and ready to face the next emergencies.

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The organization must have an emblem that allow to recognize the volunteers The organization must have a uniform The appearance is important! If necessary, citizens must be able to immediately recognize a member of the civil protection group to ask for help or for any

• ther problem.

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The members of the group should have meetings regularly; at least

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They must have a place where to have their meetings, to keep their equipment, if any and where planning the drills and the civil protection campaigns.

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The volunteer’s day

Once a year, it is useful to organize the volunteer’s day that involves all the volunteers and the citizens. During the manifestation, the volunteers should prepare activities showing to the population the experience acquired during the trainings. During this day it should be useful to organize tests that allow the volunteers to involve the people.

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Equipment

The equipment is an important part of the material available for the

• volunteers. They should check regularly its efficiency.

Define exactly how many time during a year the team should control the efficiency of the equipments.

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Personal equipment

The personal equipment should be assigned to each member of the team. It is important to keep a file with the list of the volunteers and the personal equipment assigned.

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Personal Equipment

It is not necessary to supply the volunteers with a huge amount of sophisticated equipments. The material should be bought only if finalized to the activities suggested by the contingency plan of the community..

The only equipment absolutely necessary is the equipment for the personal protection: helmet, gloves, boots, safety shoes, etc. Together with the uniform this will be part

• f the personal

equipment.

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Personal protection It is not sufficient to have a huge list of the personal protection

• equipments. It is necessary to “STAY SAFE” during the

emergencies.

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How to work during the sandbagging

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Flood in Lodi (Italy) - November 2002

What could have been done to reduce, or mitigate the impact of this disaster?

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What could have been done to reduce, or mitigate the impact of this disaster?

Flash flood in a Caribbean country - December2013

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In both cases, we could not avoid these events but, most probably, the consequences may have been mitigated.

Forecasting service NaDMA Emergency Manager Civil protection groups Do not park here in the next 24 hours

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The last mile of the St. John river in Grenada

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• St. John river (last mile) – flooding area
• Assessment of the

river conditions

• Interviews to the

people living in the area

• Take picture of the

critical points

• Anthropic impact on

the river conditions

• etc.

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Grenada - St. John river (details of two river bands)

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Bushes could stop debris and other floating material that could reduce speed of the stream.

Flash flood is working as a tsunami wave

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LODI – Old bridge Flood – November 2002

20 Inches

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“Earthquake: I don’t take risks” Seismic risk reduction national campaign

Is an initiative for seismic risk reduction which was held for the first time in 2011 and aims at promoting a culture of prevention, training volunteers more aware and specialized and starting a process to guide the citizen in acquiring an active role in seismic risk reduction. .

Font: Italian Civil Protection Department

Volunteers receive training

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historical earthquakes, seismic hazard and vulnerability, prevention and communication techniques. Before the campaign takes place, a simulation is organized, to let the volunteers feel comfortable in the approach with citizens. Civil protection volunteers are the main characters of the initiative: they are trained on seismic risk and then they in turn train other volunteers, making them actors of the process of knowledge diffusion.

Font: Italian Civil Protection Department

The campaign takes place in squares in municipalities, with priority for those classified in zone 1 or 2 – where strong earthquakes may occur. During the two days event, volunteers distribute informative documents, a leaflet and a cardboard containing rules

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behavior in case

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an earthquake, and answer to citizen’s question on possible actions to undertake for seismic risk reduction. This year the campaign is planned for 15 and 16 of June in more than 200 squares all over Italy. About 3000 volunteers were involved in the project.

Font: Italian Civil Protection Department

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Tsunami: I don’t take risks

It was held on an experimental basis in the Province of Salerno in the four weekends of the month of October and it has involved 28 coastal municipalities exposed to tsunami risk. The campaign was touring: every weekend in October. It was carried out simultaneously in marinas and squares of 7/8 coastal

• municipalities. Only in the town of Salerno it took place every weekend.

300 volunteers from local groups and regional associations of civil protection of Campania and from local sections of seven national

• rganizations have been involved in the campaign. Campania

Region supported the activities of the volunteers providing a camper van with the logo and colors of the initiative, which stopped in ports and squares to promote the campaign. The initiative has been part of the project TWIST - Tidal Wave In Southern Tyrrhenian Sea, funded by the European Commission.

Font: Italian Civil Protection Department

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A contingency plan should be owned and preferably prepared with the people who will have to operate and who know best what will, or will not, be effective. The plan, or part of it, should be tested on regular basis.

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Prevention, reduction and mitigation include volunteers preparedness that involves a range of activities, including testing of contingency plans.

Where to evacuate the people?

Chronic patients and disabled people in hospital or nursing home

Nursing home with health care facilities for elderly people Shelters

Schools Churches Other shelters

Evacuation and safety measures for industries, malls, farms, etc. Evacuation of rescuers Rest of population

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Availability to do specialized tasks assigned to the volunteers and better specified in the support functions. A generic rescuer is useful but a skilled rescuer is essential.

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In any case, during an emergency, menial jobs could seem to be less important then others. This is not true! For example, a volunteer in charge to clean the toilet helps to reduce the probability of gastro-intestinal diseases.

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A “stupid” example for the emergency in a camp is what I am calling the “Toilet Manager”

Team of Doctors Team of psycologists

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Event

Seconds Seconds Hours Minutes Minutes Hours Days Days Before the Event After the Event

Timetable for the events response and involved people

Whole Community Few persons Alone

Forecast

Warning Response

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Earthquake, at the moment, cannot be forecasted and there is not the early warning period. When the event happens, we can only rely on our self and on our preparation. The preparedness must be focused on the self help during and immediately after the event. Initially, waiting for the external help, the response will consist in helping your family and your neighbors. We have to remember that, after an earthquake, 95% of the lives are saved by their familiars and their neighbors.

Haiti earthquake just after the event

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Sudden events: earthquake.

The peace time will be focused mainly on trainings for the self help and how the secure our environment (house, furniture, office, school, etc.). How to prepare our emergency supply kit and, if we are a volunteer, how to prepare our personal protecting kit equipment necessary to help others trapped under the debris. Other important activities during the peacetime should be mainly focused on people rescuing. To be trained in these activities it necessary to cooperate with institutional organizations.

• Plan drills with the fire department to search and rescue the people trapped in collapsed

houses.

• Plan training course and drills with the Red Cross and/or St. John organizations to treat

injured people.

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Flash floods is an event that can have a short early warning period (hours or minutes). It can be forecasted by heavy rains and hurricanes. Generally, the areas interested in these events are known and restricted to the plains around the rivers. The campaign for this event must be focused on family security and house security. Flash flood is a very strong event and can be faced only reaching a safe place . Some activities can be carried out by the volunteers during the peace time to reduce the impact of this phenomenon.

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Hurricanes can be forecasted hours or days before. For this reason, to save lives and protect buildings and stuff, it is possible to focus our contingency plan on the peacetime and on the warning areas. Campaign can be focused on the evacuation in safe places as shown in the next slide.

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The consequences of anthropogenic activity could be included in the activities for the preparation of the volunteers. There is not only the "global warming" affecting the Earth but there are also phenomena that affect small communities.

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One of the most important activity of Grenada is the tourism. Keep rivers, road and environment clean will have a positive return of image for the country. “CLEAN THE WORLD” is an initiative that is promoted by other organizations but could involve the civil protection group.

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How to keep volunteers active and interested during peace time