Canada Bridges needs your support in the form of volunteers and supplies for Siksika Nation.
Description: Canada Bridges requires 30 volunteers DAILY to help with demolition and clean up of approximately 150 houses in Siksika, following the flood.
Time: Help is needed from 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m DAILY
Location: Deerfoot Sportsplex, Hwy 901 and Hwy 547. The volunteer check-in is at the high school beside the Deerfoot Sportsplex. The Deerfoot Sportsplex is the building with the red roof at the 901 and 547 intersection, south of Gleichen. There are many signs to direct you upon arrival.
Note: This opportunity is approximately an hour outside of Calgary.
This volunteer opportunity is for adults only — no children, please, given the nature of the work required.
Additional details:
- Volunteers will be assembled into teams upon arrival and dispatched to various parts of Siksika.
- Teams will assess each home, remove goods/furniture/appliances and tear out carpets and drywall as needed
- Please bring your own food and drinking water.
Special requests: Specific skills are not required for this work, although experience with construction work is a valuable asset. Volunteers are expected to bring their own rubber boots/work boots, gloves (also bring latex gloves, if possible, to fit inside work gloves to protect from water), work clothes (and coveralls, if possible), and a change of clothes for the drive home. If volunteers have their own respirator masks, hardhats, safety glasses, they are encouraged to bring these as well. Dust masks will be provided.
Siksika Nation is also in need of volunteers with training in and/or experience with mold remediation, or other training related to effectively cleaning seriously flood-damaged homes.
There may also be contamination issues. If you are trained in this area, please let us know via the comments box on the sign up form.
If you have these tools please bring them:
- Generators
- Flashlights
- Demolition equipment (sledge hammers, crowbars, hammers, drills)
- Fans
- Shopvac
- Cleaning supplies (shovels, buckets, brooms, mops, bleach)
- Moving supplies (boxes, containers, dollies, duct tape)
PLEASE NOTE:
- Even though people register with YYCHelps, they still need to register onsite with the Nation. Canada Bridges is just working with the Nation to support the people interested in volunteering.
- Volunteers will have to check-out as well for security and safety of volunteers onsite.
- For any questions please contact the call centre at Siksika Nation: 403-734-5315 or 403-734-5396.
While you can signup with YYCHelps so we know when we have enough volunteers, DO NOT WAIT TO BE CONTACTED. Go straight to the address listed above in time for your shift.
Please sign up here for this volunteer opportunity.
