This well attended meeting was at 7.30pm on 21st July in the St Thomas’s Community Lounge, 200 Riddiford St.
The main topic of the evening was a discussion about Emergency Preparedness, with Manomita Das from the Joint Centre for Disaster Research (JCDR) and Vania Szymkowiak from Wellington Regional Emergency Management Office ( WREMO).
Manomita Das is a Research Officer At Massey University whose Doctoral Thesis is about mobilising citizens for reducing disaster risks. Research into the use of communication to encourage community members to come together as collectives to jointly address hazard risks took her around a number of places, mainly in the Te Waipounamu. See the full minutes for more details.
Vania Szymkowiak is the Kaitohutohu | Emergency Management Advisor, Community Resilience and Recovery, for Wellington Region Emergency Management Office.
She talked about the role of WREMO, which works with a very large number of organisations from Te Upoko o Te Ika a Māui. The kaupapa is about and focused on Community. More information here: https://www.wremo.nz/get-ready/community-ready/
See the full minutes for more details. Vania also shared these resource links after the meeting –
Information on workshops, and a Newsletter to sign up for – News and Events
Budget conscious tips: Preparedness on a budget – from there people can move back to the main Home ready menu with other personal preparedness tips Home Ready.
A resource tool for Neighbours from Neighbourhood Support Tips + Advice | Neighbourhood Support New Zealand – the page has lots of topics with advice as well as the plan Our neighbourhood plan.pdf .
The meeting concluded with brief discussion of Meet the Candidates Meetings, the new Park at 177 Owen St, and a notice about Te Toi Mahana Community Housing (which was City Housing) organising Football games for tamariki from age 8 to 13 on Monday afternoons in Carrara Park.
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