February 6th 2023
Disaster management trainees put to the test
by DVRP
DANA PARTICIPANTS ASSIST WITH POST-TROUGH DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS.
By October of 2022, The Damage Assessment and Need Analysis (DANA) was completed by its participants. DANA is a training program aimed at preparing disaster management staff, community leaders and first responders to effectively assess destruction of a community, after a natural disaster. By November 6, 2022, the north of the island experienced a trough.
Flash flooding and landslides caused extensive damage to public and private property. Program Development Officer in the National Emergency Management Organisation (NEMO), Kenisha Jeffrey says the training was timely.
“The participants we trained in DANA, two weeks after DANA ended, the trough happened in Corinth and GrosIslet was impacted and these were the individuals that went out to do the damage assessment and for us it was a proud moment because whilst you teach, while they are training you and you are informing them that you will be called upon to assist in times of disaster, most times that opportunity never comes or you never want it to come because you never really want a disaster to happen but it was amazing to see who showed up the following day at our office who had just been trained, volunteering,” Jeffrey reveals.
The training was facilitated by Brigadier General (R), Earl Arthurs. Arthurs himself expresses pride in his cohort of trainees.
“I saw about 50 of those people engaged, going out, doing those assessments going back to NEMO and I recognised them and see them,” Arthurs declares.
DANA is one of many activities under the Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project.
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