Deans Disaster Relief

Mission Statement

Deans Disaster Relief is a non for profit foundation which emerged in the aftermath of the 2009 Victorian Black Saturday Bushfire event providing ongoing volunteer, humanitarian, disaster and emergency relief support across Australia and beyond. Deans Disaster Relief provides a host of support based disaster assistance deploying immediately in times of crisis to individuals, communities, government and non-government organisations. Empowering, advocating and enabling the connection of donors, volunteers, material and emergency aid to those communities in need of urgent and timely support

Deans Disaster Relief has a record of delivering exceptional community outcomes since 2009 with the founder, Dean, having a lived experience of surviving the horrific 2009 Black Saturday Bushfires in Victoria, Australia. In the time since, he has assisted with numerous Bushfires, Floods, and Earthquakes across Australia and New Zealand and more recently in relief services as part of the Corona Virus pandemic. Deans Disaster Relief also assists into research of disaster relief, preparedness, resilience and recovery at any and all levels and opportunities both formally and informally. Additionally and crucially, the experienced provision of deploying within red zoned areas to provide forward field co-ordination, human resource assessment, logistics, communication and needs based data gathering. The focus being on the efficient and appropriate co-ordination and distribution of resources, volunteers, donations, material and emergency aid and to support other government and non-government responses. Dean specialises in deploying into highly impacted, cordoned off areas and operates at times with high level clearances and has dealt with matters of national security. Providing advocacy for survivors and for providing front line eyewitness accounts, access to survivors and the highlighting of urgent community needs. To date, in additional to some American and UK media agencies, Deans Disaster Relief has liaised with many Australian and New Zealand radio, TV and print media. Deans Disaster Relief has also been involved with disaster related documentaries and artistic response to disasters since 2009. Deans Disaster Relief prides itself on delivering accountability in humanitarian relief. Every survivor, donor and volunteer treated with respect, empathy and the absolute assurance that donations and resources are delivered and distributed to those in the community that are in the most need. Deans Disaster Relief maintain reserves of donated and purchased humanitarian and emergency aid supplies and are always ready to deploy within hours to arrive into disaster affected communities in a time sensitive and time crucial period. Thank you in joining us in making a difference.