A SAFETY awareness and education program run by the Loddon Mallee CFA will be rekindled next year thanks to new funding from the State Government.
Member for Swan Hill Peter Walsh attended Swan Hill’s CFA headquarters on Friday to announce a funding allocation of $104,650 for the Safety Awareness Field Education (SAFE) program through the State Government’s Fire Ready Communities initiative.
SAFE delivers emergency safety messages from a range of safety providers, including the CFA, to primary school students in grades three and four through two-day workshop events.
The events have run bi-annually in Swan Hill and annually in Bendigo and Mildura for the past seven years, but this year funding restrictions prevented the program from going ahead.
CFA community safety manager Rachel Rogers said the funding was vital for the continuation and extension of the program.
For more on this story, see Monday’s edition of The Guardian (10/12/12).
