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Your donation is giving the team the tools to save more lives. Your donation will make all the difference when they arrive at an emergency and have to just think about saving lives! You will be saving lives!
Some of our new families may not know this, but every year our local firefighters visit St Catherine’s Lower School children in their big red fire truck and talk to the pupils in their classrooms, show them their uniforms and tell them all about their important job; the same team talk to our teenagers in assemblies about the importance of respecting fires; and they also train and educate our staff year in, year out, to be quick in making wise confident decisions in the case of a fire, to ensure all our students and staff are safe. When they are not doing this they are looking out for our families and homes in all of the the Attiki areas and are the team that arrives first on the scene, which means many times the difference between life and death!
Remember, they are volunteers! To them, protecting human life, property and the natural environment is their calling, and they have been doing this for the last 21 years.
Once again 'community shines through' to make a difference at St Catherine's.
The new fire engine has arrived in Greece thanks to the generous support of all our community and all the amazing effort with the children. We would like to send a huge thank you to all our community, especially the students for the whole school effort for the OEDD volunteer Firefighters fundraiser.
Together we raised €25,908 with all our community's support, and the OEDD firefighters were able to purchase a new responder vehicle, which you can see arriving at the fire station bright and shiny with the fanfare in the middle of the night! This new vehicle will make the difference in how the OEDD team can function in emergencies with their more up to date equipment and ensure they are safer on the road. The new responder vehicle has the capacity of a 6 man team to really make a difference in life-saving incidents where time is of the essence.
As a school we value those heroes who move quietly amongst us, keeping us safe with their words of wisdom and sharing their education and expertise, teaching us how to be safe.
We take for granted that they have everything they need to get the job done, and I am sure we take for granted that they will do it well in all conditions. This summer was real, in fact it was too real for many families and friends within our community and further afield.
This team represents the volunteer fire fighters in our area, and they respond to over 400 - 500 incidents and emergency calls each year, and they service directly over 44,000 citizens in Kifissia alone, and are on call for the whole of the Attiki and on duty for all of us, including the school 24/7, 365. They respond in minutes and have done with the highest level of certifications and training available.
Remember not all heroes wear capes, sometimes they wear heavy uniforms, hard hats and boots and really put their lives on the line for us!
OEDD Fire Chief, Kimon Pantelides
"The incidents are many, and climbing every year. The new smaller fire truck would get us there faster and have a capacity of 6 -person team instead of 3, it makes such a difference in what we can really do in an emergency"
Head of Development, Mrs Eleftheriou shared her experience this summer
" This year we received the dreaded text to evacuate our house, not once, but twice. We were the lucky ones to return to our home. It was not by chance that we went home safely, it was the heroes out all night fighting the fires on our behalf" Thank you from all our family and friends who lived those nights with us!
I want to be a volunteer firefighter when I'm in Year 12. Leo Kyriazis Year 4B
Today we met the firefighters and they taught us about fire safety. I gave a donation and I feel proud of myself. I hope they have enough money to buy a new fire truck now. Lower School pupil
OEDD Fire Chief, Kimon Pantelides
"The incidents are many, and climbing every year. The new smaller fire truck would get us there faster and have a capacity of 6 -person team instead of 3, it makes such a difference in what we can really do in an emergency"
Head of Development, Mrs Eleftheriou shared her experience this summer
" This year we received the dreaded text to evacuate our house, not once, but twice. We were the lucky ones to return to our home. It was not by chance that we went home safely, it was the heroes out all night fighting the fires on our behalf" Thank you from all our family and friends who lived those nights with us!
I want to be a volunteer firefighter when I'm in Year 12. Leo Kyriazis Year 4B
Today we met the firefighters and they taught us about fire safety. I gave a donation and I feel proud of myself. I hope they have enough money to buy a new fire truck now. Lower School pupil
Don't hesitate, let's all support this worthy cause!
Your donation is giving the team the tools to save more lives. Your donation will make all the difference when they arrive at an emergency and have to just think about saving lives! You will be saving lives!
The PTSA has generously offered to start off our campaign with € 2000 , and the children of St Catherine's will be generously donating their important €2 for 'mufti' and wearing red in support of their local heroes. St Catherine's has very kindly offered to match the PTSA gift ,and so we are well on the way to keeping our firefighters 'safe on the road'
We would like to ask parents and our community to make a further donation through our online platform and help us reach our target of €57,000 to purchase a much needed small rapid intervention vehicle which will ensure not only greater cover in all the key Attiki areas where our community and their families live: Ekali; Kifissia, Nea Erithea: Dionissos; Anoixi; Agios Stefano and Krioneri, to name a few, but keep our firemen safe on the road too.
Together we can reach our goals! Collectively we can make a difference! We know we can reach our goal together!
Thank you so much!
Your support is not just financial, it is the difference in the team having the tools to do their job, to keep all the communities safe and protect our livelihoods, our homes ....... Let's help them get there on time!
Your support will help the team to get to where they need to go faster, more efficiently keeping all our community, friends, families and animals safe .......
Let's also keep our firemen safe on the road together!