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Founding President of RedR Australia, the late Professor Fred Hollows AC, challenged Australian engineers to apply their ingenuity and resources to the alleviation of suffering, wherever it occurred. RedR Australia was established in 1992 by Jeff Dobell, who saw the potential for the valuable contribution engineers can make in responding to disasters and alleviating poverty. In 1995, RedR Australia signed its first contract with AusAID which provided funding to support the development of a register of trained technical professionals to work with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in emergency relief. In the past decade RedR Australia has expanded the breadth of its Register and has gained a well-earned reputation for training and providing highly skilled and experienced technical experts for disaster and humanitarian relief to United Nations Standby Partners and to international and national non-government organisations. Our training courses prepare relief workers for the realities of working in harsh environments and are highly regarded within the humanitarian relief sector.
RedR Australia occupies a specialised area in international relief by offering experienced technical professionals the opportunity to work on short term disaster and humanitarian relief assignments without necessarily having to resign from their regular jobs. People on the Standby Register have been through a rigorous selection and training process, with their skills and experience coming from a wide range of professions and industries. The type of services they provide may include water supply, sanitation, shelter, camp planning, road and bridge construction, public communications, logistics, project management, air operations, public health, humanitarian protection and field co-ordination. Following completion of their assignment many return to their usual employment. We are members of: - Australian Council for International Development (ACFID)
- Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre
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RedR Australia is a not-for-profit humanitarian organisation. We are not an employment agency and we do not run our own field projects. We are a member of RedR International, a federated network of offices sharing a common vision of a world in which sufficient competent and committed personnel are available and responding to humanitarian needs.
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