Rescuers from passion

2016

'Rescuers from passion' is a campaign that aims to increase resilience at the community level by training paramedics. In this way, the volunteering paramedics can become small ambassadors of their community. The campaign started as a pilot project in Romania and grew to a large scale project that periodically enrol people with various age and profession. The campaign seeks to create an ever closer link between civil society and professional emergency services, by actively involving volunteers in solving problems that communities face. The activities consist of participation in responding to emergency situations (e.g., fires, floods, natural disasters, epidemics), acquiring skills in first aid and provide first aid, involvement in humanitarian aid as well as promoting preventive emergency measures among citizens.The training of the volunteers is conducted stepwise through a set of training sessions. The training ends with exams.