The establishment of a DMS in Toronto will serve as the DMS Foundation’s headquarters, central warehouse, product assembly facility and logistics headquarters and is to be the forerunner for several other DMS Centres in Canada and abroad.

Local Community based programs will cover the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) area and will initially provide:

• Local community-based New skill programs for seniors including a day-care centre;
• Help people living in poverty in the GTA  find a second chance in life, dignity and work;
• Support other DMS Centres and programs elsewhere in Canada and abroad.

The concept behind each DMS Centre is to provide communities exposed to recurring disasters with the necessary  infrastructure to sustain and maintain local community-based disaster mitigation and response programs, by equipping these centres with the required technologies, products, and materiel including support services and community-based education and training programs, where every person plays an active role in minimizing losses within their neighborhood and DMS is able to fulfill its mission, goals and objectives.

The services provided by the DMS Centres will also include, over and above disaster mitigation programs, social services; community-based educational programs in the prevention and spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria, family and personal hygiene including, immunization against a number of other infectious and communicable diseases.  

The Toronto DMS Centre will also act as DMS’ Training Centre, where DMS personnel, value-added members and volunteers are trained in multiple-skills to serve communities in Canada and abroad that are subject to recurring disasters and to prepare  them with the tools and knowhow to monitor, antecipate and respond to major disasters long before any outside help arrives. 

The Toronto DMS will also maintain a 24/7 rapid response and deployment  capability teams, made-up of DMS personnel, its value-added members and volunteers ready to spring into action at moment’s notice.

At a local level, the Toronto DMS Centre will also provide a series of community-based programs on disaster mitigation. Other programs will include;  getting people out of poverty through skills training and work participation who in turn may be able to help other communities in distress in taking hold of their lives.

DMS will also be opening a senior's day-care program to give meaning to the lives of retired people through volunteering and helping in the office with fund raising campaigns and mailers, telecommunication, internet, and inventory control to ensure that DMS is always ready to respond to major disasters anywhere.

DMS relies on Canadian specialized personnel and volunteers from all walks of life in the delivery, training and support of DMS programs. These include, but are not limited to managers, office and administrative personnel, demonstrators, trainers, academics, teachers, linguists, interpreters, social workers, the medical profession, nutritionists, engineers, disaster management and ICT specialists, first responders, search and rescue officers, mechanics, builders, carpenters, drivers, law enforcement personnel and others. To train and guide local personnel to carry-out the various functions of a DMS Centre and respond to the needs of their communities.

Partnerships for Success

DMS is a registered charitable organization that believes in giving but also believes that giving, if it is to be successful, must involve those in need as well.

Communities that look after themselves thrive and have the power to change the course of their destiny. AS a charitable organization, wit limited financial resources DMS cannot do it alone.  It needs the cooperation of corporate and private donors, philanthropists, government’s and above all the communities that most need hep. It has to be a two-way street.

DMS’ approach to community-building and self-sufficiency is to first discover the community’s resourcefulness. Survival is the most primordial of all human resources and yes, economic and sustainable value must also be created in the process. In doing so, research must be completed and ground rules established under which a project can be self-supporting and sustainable overt he long term.

Communities exposed to recurring natural and other disasters not only suffer from the tragic consequences of these disasters, loss of life, injury and economic losses, but they also affect the economy of these communities and their countries.

DMS works in tandem with local governments and needy communities on a community-by-community basis to ensure that an economical model can be built to make local communities thrive and where each member takes charge and assumes responsibility for their own wellbeing and safety.

This is achieved in collaboration with local government through the development and implementation of “Partnerships for Success” that emphasize planning, prevention, community and empowerment.   

Donations by Credit Card

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