Local Communities
Service Projects
Community Engagement Project: Pocket Forest
Location: Lobethal
Status: Active
Adelaide Hills Community Engagement Project
DRA is returning to Lobethal in the Adelaide Hills to provide support to the Mill Road Pocket Forest bushfire recovery project. The South Australian DRT has been committed to offering recovery and assistance since the devastating aftermath of the 19/20 Black Summer bushfires.
Located at the entrance to Lobethal, the pocket forest project acknowledges community resiliency and the contributions of numerous selfless townspeople who worked to save the town and support its recovery.
Service Project ACT Food Drop
In Response to: COVID Lockdowns
Location: ACT
Status: Active
ACT Volunteers Muster for Food Drop
Disaster Relief Team ACT will support Volunteering ACT and partner with the ACT Government with food distribution to residents within the ACT in order to support the COVID relief the ACT community.
Teams will pick up approximately 80 food boxes per day from a warehouse established at Canberra showground and deliver these to nominated addresses across the ACT. The Warehouse will operate from Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
All deliveries will be contactless and in accordance with strict COVID guidelines.
Service Project Gallipoli Trench
In Response to: Cyclone Seroja
Location: Geraldton, WA
Active: 23 July 2021 to 26 July 2021
Rebuilding the Gallipoli Trench after Cyclone Seroja
On the 11th April 2021, Severe Tropical Cyclone Seroja hit Geraldton, Western Australia. It caused widespread damage in the mid-west Gascoyne regions, the worst hit being the small towns of Kalbarri and Northampton.
11th Battalion Living History Unit, based in Geraldton, Western Australia, 400km north of Perth, are a team dedicated to researching and representing Western Australia’s first Battalion. The Gallipoli Trench, which is their recreation of a captured Turkish trench as taken by the 11th Battalion on the night of 31st July 1915, has been damaged to the extent of 60-80%. They were able to reopen to the public at the end of July 2021 with DRA’s assistance.
Service Project VIC Assist
In Response to: Catastrophic Floods
Location: Trentham VIC 3458 (Regional Victoria) &
Mooroolbark VIC 3138 (Metro Vic)
Active: 18th -20th June 2021 (Inclusive)
Melbourne Volunteers Help the Dandenong Ranges
Following severe weather events across the state of Victoria on the 9th – 12th June 2021, a number of areas in both Regional and Metro Vic have suffered extensive weather damage.
Disaster Relief Australia (DRA)’s Melbourne DRT, is collaborating with a Veteran Centric rehabilitation charity in order to provide recovery and assistance.
Service Project Wooroloo
In Response to: Devastating Bushfires
Location: Wooroloo, WA
Active: 30 June 2021 to 31 July 2021
Keeping up Bushfire Recovery in Wooroloo
The Wooroloo / Gidgegannup Bushfire fire started in the Wooroloo area north east of Perth. It damaged approximately 320 properties and destroyed at least 86 dwellings, burning approximately 10500 ha of land with a fire perimeter of 136 km. In response, Operation Woods ran between February 27th to April 24th 2021. During this time 129 work orders were created and 103 closed. The service project aims to complete all remaining tasks over an 8 week period.
Service Project Adelaide Hills
In Response to: Bushfire Recovery
Location: Adelaide Hills
Active: Aug 2020 – current
Black Summer Bushfires Recovery in Adelaide Hills
The Adelaide DRT (disaster relief team) launched a Service Project in the Cudlee Creek bushfire area to continue assisting with the relief and recovery from the 2019/2020 fires.
The most recent service project is for Cherry Gardens, to assist and support the community affected by fires earlier in 2021. Members will have the option of helping with this disaster recovery as many or as few days as they are able.