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Community Resilience Training

2022-11-17

Disaster Preparedness Foundation Training

If individuals and the community possess sufficient knowledge and resilience such as basic survival skills and first aid knowledge before crisis and emergencies occur, causalities and damage can be greatly reduced, and thus facilitating community recovery.

With the aim to enhance knowledge and skills amongst general public on the scope of community resilience and aim at improve public’s response capacity to urban crises and emergencies in high risk communities. Hong Kong Red Cross has developed a Disaster Preparedness Foundation Training Course suitable for people from all walks of life. This workshop serves as an introduction to the basic elements of disaster preparedness through interactive learning. It also provides basic understanding of the common disasters, disaster kit, communicable disease, principles of first aid and psychological first aid.

 

 

Disaster Preparedness Foundation Training Course

Disaster Preparedness Foundation Training Workshop

Date:

Arranged according to organizations request and subject to availability

Time:

1 hour – 3 hours(Arranged according to organizations request)

Venue:

Arranged by organizations/ Hong Kong Red Cross Headquarters

Target Participants:

Anybody

Class Size:

Not less than 30 people

Around 30 people
(minimum 20 people)

Training Mode:

Talk

Interactive learning, group games, etc.

Course Fee:

Subject to the organization and participants nature

Remark:

  • Delivered in Cantonese or English 
  • Delivered in Cantonese or English 
  • Details will be discussed according to the venue, number of participants and time

Enrolment:

Apply Online (face-to-face version)

Apply Online (zoom version)

 

 

 

Community Resilience Experiential Activity

Community Resilience experiential activities can be held with other workshops, including VR experience, fire, heat wave and cold spell workshops, design disaster kits, and first aid skills experience etc.

1. Moving Disaster Preparedness Education Truck

Hong Kong Red Cross debuts Moving Disaster Preparedness Education Truck for participants to experience a mixture scenario of typhoon and fire in the truck, to learn how to deal with disasters.

Date:

Arranged according to organizations request and subject to availability

Time:

3 hours – 8 hours(Arranged according to organizations request)

Venue:

Arranged by organizations

Target Participants:

Anybody

Class Size:

Not less than 100 people

Course Fee:

Subject to the organization and participants nature

Remark:

  • 9 tonnes truck can be parked in the venue
  • Delivered in Cantonese or English
  • Each experience takes 15 minutes and allowing 6-7 people to participate at the same time

  • Details will be discussed according to the venue, number of participants and time
  • Contact us if the target participants are less than 100 people

Enrolment:

Apply Online

 

  

2. Virtual Reality (VR) Experiential Game

Virtual Reality (VR) Game is designed for participants to experience flooding, earthquake and infectious disease, to learn how to deal with disasters.

Date:

Arranged according to organizations request and subject to availability

Time:

Not less than 1 hour(Arranged according to organizations request)

Venue:

Arranged by organizations/ Hong Kong Red Cross Headquarters

Target Participants:

Anybody

Class Size:

Not less than 30 people

Course Fee:

Subject to the organization and participants nature

Remark:

  • Height Limitation: 120 - 190cm
  • Delivered in Cantonese, Mandarin or English 
  • VR game take 5-8minutes for each person
  • 1hour for 20-30 participants

Enrolment:

Apply Online

Enquiries:

Community Resilience Team, Health and Care Service Department, Hong Kong Red Cross

Email: cr@redcross.org.hk

Tel: 2507-7069/2514-2249

 

Community Resilience Programme Details (Chinese Version Only)