Strong Women, Stronger Communities
Event description
Ladies, it's time to gain the skills and confidence to protect your home, family, and community! Join us for a hands-on workshop where you’ll learn essential skills from flood prevention to fire safety, basic home maintenance, and self-care tips during emergencies. 🚒💪
📅 Date: 16 November 2024
🕘 Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm
📍 Location: Varsity Lakes Community Resource Centre, 20 Mattocks Rd, Varsity Lakes
REGISTRATION LINK: Strong Women, Stronger Communities
What’s on offer:
- Agency role within the community
- Home preparation tips : ladder safety, gutter cleaning
- Home protection : water diversion, make safe window covering and sandbagging
- Fire awareness and how to prepare against risk
- Understanding fire trails
- Understanding back burns
- Understanding hazard risk reduction
- Who the DEMU is and what they do
- Natural Disasters on the Gold Coast
- Preparing your home and yourself
- Information and overview of disaster dashboard and other channels for information
- Learn how to look after yourself so you can look after others
- Learn tools on how to recognise and manage stress during and after disasters
- Practical skills for basic car maintenance
- Practical skills around the home
- Tyre changing demonstration
SES:
RFS:
CoGC:
PCCS:
Burleigh Mens Shed:
The Lions Club Robina have kindly donated their time and a Sausage Sizzle on the day to make sure no one goes hungry!
And yes, we have FREE barista coffee ready to fuel your morning ☕✨! Don't forget your water bottle to stay hydrated!
We will have child-minding facility if required where resilience building activities will be offered. (If you are bring children please register for each child as well)
Bring a friend and empower each other to stay safe and self-reliant. See you there! 🙌
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