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The Caribbean
Red Cross was recently represented at the “Volunteering
in Emergencies: The Way Forward” workshop by Mrs
Jondo Malafa-Obi, director of the Cayman Islands Red
Cross. The workshop was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
from April 17 – 19.
The objective of the workshop was
to analyze challenges regarding volunteer management
in emergencies and agree on solutions on how they could
be implemented.
A total of 52 participants from
various National Societies / Overseas Branches from
the Asia/Pacific region attended the workshop.
Jondo presented the Caribbean Volunteer
Management Tool Kit at the workshop and explained how
it was being used in the region.
The Caribbean Volunteer Management
Tool Kit was developed by the National Societies and
Overseas Branches in the Caribbean and looks at the
whole aspect of volunteer management in a very “user
friendly” manner.
Participants at the workshop were
quite impressed with the tool kit and requested copies
to be taken back to their National Societies and Overseas
Branches to use some of the techniques outlined in it
to help them with management of their volunteers.
Throughout the workshop, the focus
was the review of the volunteer management process as
it relates to the disaster management cycle (before
during and after a disaster).
The idea being that there would
be a lower level of activity before an emergency, a
scaling up of activities during the emergency operation,
and then the scaling down after the emergency.
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