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Get to know your neighboursStep 3
Volunteer in your communityKnowing your neighbours
Your neighbours may be the first people able to help you in an emergency. When you get to know your neighbours, you’re more likely to look out for each other during and after an emergency event.
You may also meet people in your neighbourhood who may need extra help in an emergency such as elderly, those with disabilities, people living alone, or people with English as a second language.
No one knows a community better than those who live in it!
Community Resilience Groups are a team people in your area who are trained to open and run a Community Emergency hub. They work with Emergency Management Otago to develop community response plans by the community, for the community. They are a great way for the community to come together, discuss and outline how they plan to respond and keep each other safe during an emergency event.
To ensure that Community Resilience Groups have the capability to activate, training can be provided by Emergency Management Otago to cover:
Contact your local Emergency Management Advisor for further information on creating a community resilience group for your area or to join an existing one.
Volunteers are an important part of the emergency management community, before, during and after an emergency event.
Whatever organisation you volunteer for, or even if you just show up to help occasionally, you can promote preparedness and increase the resilience of the Otago region.
Here are some of our partners that you could volunteer with: