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(quoted from RMP)
4WD Victoria Bushfire Rural Response Group : How you can help
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The entire Australian 4WD community is appalled by the Victorian bushfire catastrophe. We're all ready to jump into our cars and help. But how? The authorities can't handle thousands of individual offers of assistance, so the best way is through the existing management structure. For some years now several Victorian 4WD clubs have formed RRGs, or Rural Response Groups. These are teams of club members who go out to communities after disasters like floods or fires (or both!) and help put things right. Typically a RRG will camp, entirely self-sufficiently, on local land and then get to work. Tasks include debris removal, cleaning, fencing, minor building, transportation and dam clearing. Anything that needs doing.
The way it's working now; there is one coordinator for all of 4WD Victoria. He's in constant contact with the authorities, and he's run RRGs for a while so he knows what they can do. He matches capability with requests from the authorities. There are a number of clubs waiting for work, and tasks will be given to each club who then goes off and completes it. In this way we can quickly and efficiently direct effort to where it's needed, which is much more effective than individuals all asking the same authorities the same questions.
So if you want to help, you can.
1. Are you:
- willing to work hard all day for no remuneration
- a team player, willing to work under the direction of others in a team
- able to be entirely self-sufficient, camping with no facilities, not drawing on the community's limited resources
- wanting to do something truly useful with your life?
Skills don't matter, the groups find work for everyone.
If this sounds like you then:
2. Select a club from the list below.
3. Contact the club with:
- Your name
- Mobile/landline
- Email
- Vehicle make & model
- Brief description of what you can do
- Potentially useful equipment (fencing, trailers etc)
- Useful skills (track clearing, building, fencing, car removals etc)
- Dates available
4. If it all works out, the club will add you to its relief effort team. For insurance purposes it may require you become a temporary or full member. Please note no club is under no obligation to accept any offers.
The disaster isn't over yet. The real work won't be starting just yet and will take weeks, months and years to finish, so while we all want to get in our trucks and roar off to help we can't right now -- so donate some money in the meantime.
More details on a typical RRG:
http://www.pajeroclub.com.au/home/services/pajero rural response group flyer v1.5.pdf
List of Victorian clubs with RRGs as of 10/02/09 morning:
3rd Rock 4x4 Club
Adventurer 4X4 Club
Albury-Wodonga 4WD Club
Ballarat 4WD Club
Bendigo 4Wd Club
Bellarine 4X4 Club
Central Highlands 4X4 Club
CFA 4wd Club
City West 4X4 Club
Dandenong Ranges Four Wheel Drive Club
Gippsland 4WD Club
Idlers Club
Kerang 4WD Club
Latrobe Valley 4WD club
Land Rovers Owners Club of Vic
Macalister 4WD Touring & Social Club
Melbourne Jeep Owners Club
Nissan Club
Pajero Club
Range Rover Club Vic
Suzuke Four Wheel Drive Club
Toyota Landcruiser Club
Toyota Hilux Club
Toyota 4WD Club of Victoria Inc
Werribee & District
Victorian Police Four Wheel Drive Club
Yarra Valley
Wesley 4X4 Club
Full contact details for each club are here:
4WDV Clubs Page
*** Maybe and admin can make this a sticky ****
(quoted from RMP)
4WD Victoria Bushfire Rural Response Group : How you can help
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The entire Australian 4WD community is appalled by the Victorian bushfire catastrophe. We're all ready to jump into our cars and help. But how? The authorities can't handle thousands of individual offers of assistance, so the best way is through the existing management structure. For some years now several Victorian 4WD clubs have formed RRGs, or Rural Response Groups. These are teams of club members who go out to communities after disasters like floods or fires (or both!) and help put things right. Typically a RRG will camp, entirely self-sufficiently, on local land and then get to work. Tasks include debris removal, cleaning, fencing, minor building, transportation and dam clearing. Anything that needs doing.
The way it's working now; there is one coordinator for all of 4WD Victoria. He's in constant contact with the authorities, and he's run RRGs for a while so he knows what they can do. He matches capability with requests from the authorities. There are a number of clubs waiting for work, and tasks will be given to each club who then goes off and completes it. In this way we can quickly and efficiently direct effort to where it's needed, which is much more effective than individuals all asking the same authorities the same questions.
So if you want to help, you can.
1. Are you:
- willing to work hard all day for no remuneration
- a team player, willing to work under the direction of others in a team
- able to be entirely self-sufficient, camping with no facilities, not drawing on the community's limited resources
- wanting to do something truly useful with your life?
Skills don't matter, the groups find work for everyone.
If this sounds like you then:
2. Select a club from the list below.
3. Contact the club with:
- Your name
- Mobile/landline
- Vehicle make & model
- Brief description of what you can do
- Potentially useful equipment (fencing, trailers etc)
- Useful skills (track clearing, building, fencing, car removals etc)
- Dates available
4. If it all works out, the club will add you to its relief effort team. For insurance purposes it may require you become a temporary or full member. Please note no club is under no obligation to accept any offers.
The disaster isn't over yet. The real work won't be starting just yet and will take weeks, months and years to finish, so while we all want to get in our trucks and roar off to help we can't right now -- so donate some money in the meantime.
More details on a typical RRG:
http://www.pajeroclub.com.au/home/services/pajero rural response group flyer v1.5.pdf
List of Victorian clubs with RRGs as of 10/02/09 morning:
3rd Rock 4x4 Club
Adventurer 4X4 Club
Albury-Wodonga 4WD Club
Ballarat 4WD Club
Bendigo 4Wd Club
Bellarine 4X4 Club
Central Highlands 4X4 Club
CFA 4wd Club
City West 4X4 Club
Dandenong Ranges Four Wheel Drive Club
Gippsland 4WD Club
Idlers Club
Kerang 4WD Club
Latrobe Valley 4WD club
Land Rovers Owners Club of Vic
Macalister 4WD Touring & Social Club
Melbourne Jeep Owners Club
Nissan Club
Pajero Club
Range Rover Club Vic
Suzuke Four Wheel Drive Club
Toyota Landcruiser Club
Toyota Hilux Club
Toyota 4WD Club of Victoria Inc
Werribee & District
Victorian Police Four Wheel Drive Club
Yarra Valley
Wesley 4X4 Club
Full contact details for each club are here:
4WDV Clubs Page
