{"id":4719,"date":"2010-10-22T01:57:11","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/volunteers-experience-mock-disaster\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:06:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:06:36","slug":"volunteers-experience-mock-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/volunteers-experience-mock-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers play victims in mock disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Curtin Weekend volunteers will round out a month of community service by playing victims in a mock disaster simulated by emergency services in the surfing mecca of Margaret River.<\/p>\n

Volunteer co-ordinator Jayde Kong said the 20 Student Housing residents and staff from Vickery House would marshal at the Â鶹ֱ²¥ flag poles at 3pm today and hit the road soon after.<\/p>\n

“I’m going shopping soon for snacks and stuff we can eat on the bus,” Ms Kong said this morning.<\/p>\n

The John Curtin Weekend volunteers will check into their backpackers’ accommodation tonight before helping the local emergency management committee with an important training exercise over the weekend.<\/p>\n

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Two volunteers act as victims in a mock disaster training exercise during a previous John Curtin Weekend. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ms Kong, a second-year pharmacy student, said she would be observing the locals’ “fast response” skills with interest.<\/p>\n

Apart from helping to stage the mock disaster, the volunteers will help extend the local Rotary Park by pitching in with weeding, planting and painting.<\/p>\n

In a busy weekend, the students will also lend a hand with the Margaret River Rotary Fun Run whose proceeds are earmarked for charity.<\/p>\n

Ms Kong said that all but she and two other of the volunteers were international students.<\/p>\n

“We’ve got students from Tanzania, the US and China,” she said.<\/p>\n

“It’s a very good mix and you get to meet so many people from so many different backgrounds.<\/p>\n

“It’s always a good chance to socialise.”<\/p>\n

Ms Kong said that getting out of Perth and into the country was an important experience for local and international students alike.<\/p>\n

“The bush is a part of our national identity – and a lot of the international students think that’s what Australia is, big, wide open spaces – but not too many people have experience of it,” she said.<\/p>\n

“We’re all busy at uni, but this is one weekend you can do something out of your comfort zone and give back to the community.”<\/p>\n

This coming weekend marks the end of the eleventh annual John Curtin Weekend program, which this month has seen more than 500 Â鶹ֱ²¥ volunteers pitch in to 40 community projects around the great sandy state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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