Girlette Fahie originally joined the BVI Red Cross seven years ago as a way of meeting her peers and socializing.

Girlette Fahie

As a member of the Red Cross, she has been able to attain training and skills in: Practical First Aid, Home Care Basics, Community Emergency Response, HIV and AIDS-related Peer Educator training, Community Based Disaster Preparedness, Emergency Care and Treatment in Disasters, Warehousing, Supply Management, Radio Communications, and Blood typing, glucose monitoring and cholesterol checking.

She currently serves as Public Relations Officer for the Voluntary Aid Detachment (having served as Vice President and Secretary), and has attended hundreds of duties as a First Aider. 

As a VAD, Girlette likes meeting with her peers, and the feeling of accomplishment attained from serving as a First Aider.  Recently, she has become involved with the Junior Red Cross. 
 
Girlette would the public to know that the BVI Red Cross is involved in many different areas (not just “blood” as she has heard said), and would like to see greater involvement from the local community. 

She would like to see the Red Cross re-introduced into the primary schools, where children can be given a foundation First Aid course that could help them to respond to any incidents that may occur.  

She feels that being a Junior Red Cross member whilst in High School, would help students to lead useful and fulfilling lives.

Girlette represents the Red Cross to a very high standard, and is a fine role model for those young people in whom she takes so much interest.  She bases her own philosophy on that of the Hon. Elmore Stoutt, “Do as much as you can while you can.”