Life Saving Skills Boost For Members, Volunteers
The Fiji Red Cross Society is upskilling its staff members and volunteers in an effort to keep them refreshed and updated on skills they need for the work they do.
This week it started an eight-day training workshop for 15 volunteers and staff members in Suva.
The staff members and volunteers are undergoing Pacific First Aid and Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and Training of the trainer’s workshop, which will end next Friday.
Fiji Red Cross safety co-ordinator Riyaz Khan said the participants were from all divisions in the country.
“This workshop is done after every two years where the participants are taught about first aid and CPR,” Mr Khan said.
“We have New Zealand Red Cross training co-ordinator Lesley Jacobson, who is here to train our staff members and volunteers.”
Mate Moce, a Red Cross volunteer based in Lautoka, hopes to become an instructor for the Western Division.
Ms Moce hails from Mualevu Village in Vanuabalavu, Lau, and has been a volunteer for the past 12 years.
“I hope to be an instructor in the safety department for the Western Division after this training. It will come with a lot of challenges, but I am ready to tackle them all.
Edited by Epineri Vula
