Thursday, 24 April 2014
Friday, 11 April 2014
YEAC IS HERE TO STAY REMEMBERING TO PREPARE, PLAN AND STAY INFORMED!!
Youth
Emergency Action Committee (Y.E.A.C. III)
The Youth Emergency Action Committee (YEAC) was formed in
September 2011, and is funded in part by USAID, CARITAS and CRS all of
which are established organizations that deals with the well being of mankind.
Our project deals with disaster preparedness through MITIGATION it engages young people of ages 18 -35 in sensitizing their communities through various activities on Risk Management and reduction, and preparing for disasters.
PURPOSE OF GROUP: To work together to build a safer and more resilient community
aimed at minimizing the Effects/Impacts of disasters, i.e., Hurricane, Floods, Fire, Earthquakes, Tsunamis.
A
brief Summary of the YEAC project in Grenada
In the Island of Grenada there
are three committees present this group are; Mont Tout, Gouyave and
Victoria. Mt Tout was the first then Gouyave, and they
both started in the first phase and finally Victoria which was formed at the
end of the second phase. During the second phase (yeacII) Grenada YEAC has passed their target number in the
Community SENSITIZATION which was 42 persons, but due to their Ready Campaign
through secondary and primary schools they have reached over 1,800 persons.
This Campaign was started on 1st March 2013.
During
the first phase Mt Tout and Gouyave YEAC’s have done a VCA
(Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment), this assessment was done to show the hazards
that the communities are at risk to and how can they recover
during and after massive disasters.
The third phase (yeacIII) which has a duration of
six months started from October 2013 to March 2014. During this phase the
Committees are required to sustain themselves by partnering with suppliers like
local businesses and Stake Holders in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) example
National Disaster Management Agency (NaDMA). Finally, during this phase members
were required to be certified in special training's which were; First Aid,
Shelter Management and Rapid Assessment/ Response. This
is to allow them to become sub-committee brigades so that they can be
recognized and also to become local DRR decision-making platforms.
The training's are done by Red Cross, NaDMA, RGPF, St. John Ambulance
and other stake holders in Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Management.
References: http://kraymondyeac.wix.com/grenadayeac
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