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Alexander Dennis Trident, ADL Enviro 400 (H39/24D)
Go-Ahead London
Buckingham Palace Road, London
26 October 2023
Echuca Aero Club VH-FBF Piper PA-28-181 Archer II c/n 28-7990441, ex N29268. Year of manufacture: 1979. Aircraft first registered in Australia: 16 February 1990. Registration holder and operator as of 19 May 2006 is Echuca Aero Club - Day 3 Avalon 2013 Australian International Airshow. File: VH-FBF_YMAV_20130228_0250
The Togolese Red Cross yesterday (4 September 2017) carried out its second humanitarian distribution in two weeks under forecast-based financing (FbF), as heavy monsoon rain threatened more villages on the Mono river downstream from the Nangbeto dam. TRC volunteers and staff – including the society’s president – distributed emergency-shelter items for just over 100 households from the village of Togbavi, in Lacs prefecture, in coastal Maritime region. The families had been driven out of their homes by rising water-levels and set up camp on elevated highways. The TRC was also engaged in preparing evacuation sites, and it delivered two canoes – one for Togbavi and one for Azimé Dosou village – to facilitate possible evacuations. The latest distribution included, for each household, a tarpaulin and a mosquito net, two sleeping mats, as well as buckets and soap. It was the latest stage in an FbF sequence that was triggered two weeks ago by alerts from dam operators and the hydrological ‘FUNES’ prediction system, which the Togolese and German Red Cross has been helping to refine. The distribution was planned with Togo’s National Agency for Civil Protection, and the TRC president M. Gagno Norbert Paniah and local officials took part. “On behalf of the community we thank the Togolese and German Red Cross for this assistance, most of all for the canoe, which will help us to cross the waters and evacuate the people safely,” said Togbavi Chief Gbedassi. In collaboration with dam operators, the Togolese and German Red Cross team were closely monitoring discharge rates and water-levels at the dam for weeks. In a daily conference call, the Red Cross get data on the actual volume in the lake above the dam, water flowing inwards, and planned discharges. Staff then monitor water levels in nearly 20 high-risk villages and a further 11 in a second category of risk. In late August 2017, in its first FbF operation of the rainy season, the TRC distributed Aquatabs and waterproof protection for household documents to just under 2,000 at-risk households in the first group. (Photo: Andrea Kehrwald/DRK)
The delegates from the Southern Africa workshop in Malawi with their facilitators Lt Col Mary Capsey and Elise Belcher