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Marilyn Africa, Athlone’s disaster risk management (DRM) volunteer coordinator, officially unveiled the new DRM centre last Saturday. The ribbon was cut by (from left) JP Smith, (Mayco member for safety and security ,) Africa, Tiana Jacobs, Rashid Adams (ward councillor), and JohnBayly Brown (DRM head of training).
Volunteers get own base
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new disaster risk management (DRM) volunteer centre has been opened at the Athlone Civic Centre. The City of Cape Town’s safety and security directorate officially opened the centre last Saturday, as one of three opened on the day, . The centres will add to the 10 other active DRM volunteer bases across the city. Mayco member for safety and security, JP Smith, says funding was provided via the Urban Settle-
ments Development Grant. “The facility cost R1m and comprises separate toilet/shower facilities for men and women (wheelchair-friendly), a fully kitted out kitchen, an open plan training and meeting area for 50 people and an office and store-room. There are ramps both in and out of the facility,” he says. Ward councillor Rashid Adams was glad that another project in the ward has come to fruition. Adams says the establishment of the DRM volunteer centre was initiated by a resident of the area who herself served as a volunteer, but
in an entirely different area. Suzette Little, the then ward councillor, took it upon herself to approach the city to establish a centre in Athlone. Before the building of the centre, Little provided office space in the ward 49 council offices. The new base will serve as a central meeting and deployment point for the various volunteer units across the city. The volunteers receive first-aid training from Level 1 to Level 3 and beyond, provided there is funding, Smith adds. In addition, they also receive
community-based risk assessment training. “The vision is that this facility provides not only a base for the volunteers, but a facility that can be used during disaster-related incidents in the area, (for example). providing food, issuing of clothes or serving as a medical post,” says Smith. The volunteer corps has nearly 500 active members who help in the City’s emergency services with humanitarian relief operations and fire fighting, among other things, such as delivering newborn babies, Adams explains.
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“Little and I were together one day when we saw a young man being stabbed in front of the Athlone Civic Centre on Klipfontein Road. I picked up my phone and got hold them. (The volunteers) responded and they were able to stabilise this guy until the ambulance came. They worked effectively and we were totally amazed. “A few weeks later, we also discovered that there was a woman giving birth along the road and the same (response) happened. The type of work that they do is phenomenal.” V Continued on page 3.
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