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Become a Spontaneous Emergency & Recovery Volunteer
Volunteering SA&NT manages the registration and referral of spontaneous volunteers for South Australia. When preparing for, and after a disaster is over, volunteers may be required to assist with recovery.
There are a variety of things you may be asked to do as a spontaneous volunteer, although there is currently no formal call for volunteers.
In the short-term volunteers may help with clean up, fencing, transport, sorting goods, administration or tasks that are requiring specialist skills. Of course, Emergency Recovery can last months or years and volunteers may be needed in the long term to assist with a variety of tasks such as building and environment restoration activities, or supporting community service organisations experiencing an increase in demand for services
Volunteering SA&NT will work with agencies to ascertain their needs for volunteers, in the event of an emergency. When activated, you will receive information via email about current opportunities with emergency response/recovery organisations.
Please note: All agencies will do their best to ensure that volunteers will operate in a safe environment, however all volunteers need to understand that they will be operating in a declared emergency situation
You can also find out more information about emergency volunteering and apply for emergency response and recovery roles with the below organisations directly.
BlazeAid is volunteer-based organisation that works with families and individuals in rural Australia after natural disasters such as fires, cyclones, droughts and floods.
Working alongside the rural families, our volunteers help to rebuild fences and other structures that have been damaged or destroyed
Disaster Relief Australia unites the skills and experience of military veterans, emergency service specialists and motivated civilians to help people during some of their worst days.
The NAB Foundation Recovery Crew supports the experienced Disaster Relief Australia team with general recovery tasks during clean up operations. For more information on Disaster Relief Australia and NAB Foundation Recovery Crew operations go to: NAB Foundation Recovery Crew – Disaster Recovery Volunteering.
Interested in discovering more about volunteering during emergencies? Check out the useful resources listed below.