Swine Flu Update

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Taylor Swift Fan?

You can vote online for her to win a CMT Award. CMT will donate $2500 to the winner of each category’s charity of choice. Taylor Swift has chosen the American Red Cross as her charity of choice and she’s been nominated for 4 awards! Get votin’ y’all!

Look at Page 104 of May’s Seventeen Magazine

We’re all over it!

I Saved a Whole Cat

This Red Cross blood donor has donated 3 times in the past year. Each donation can save up to 3 lives, so he claims he’s saved 9 lives – the equivalent of a whole cat!                From  WhEpAsA Boy!’s Flickr photo stream: This is the third photo during my 365 dedicated to giving blood, [...]

How to avoid swine flu

This blog post is a group effort of Red Crossers Robin Parker, Wendy Harman, and Claire Sale: Here are some important things we bloggers have been doing to stay safe while on the road this week: Washing our hands. This task doesn’t have to be a bore. In fact, humming a complete renditon of “Row [...]

World Malaria Day

Malaria kills nearly 1 million people every year 86% of malaria cases occur in Africa, but it’s still a global problem affecting Asia and Latin America There is no vaccine for malaria. You may have heard about Ashton Kutcher’s meteoric rise to Twitter fame on the promise that he’d ding dong ditch Ted Turner’s house [...]

Be a Star! It’s Global Youth Service Day

This post is by National Youth Council members Mathew Morgan and Liz Quintana It’s Global Youth Service Day, an event that we will be celebrating all weekend! Millions of young people around the world will implement community service projects and change their communities during Global Youth Service Day (April 24-26, 2009). Participate in the movement. [...]

Vintage Posters: 1918 – 2005

For a fun Friday break, we thought you might like to see this short montage of our some of our favorite posters through the years.

Weekly Worldwide Wrap-Up

Welcome to the Weekly Worldwide Wrap-Up, in which we consolidate the international Red Cross and Red Crescent news into one list of bite-sized links for you… [The place names link to maps so that you can get a quick idea of the region.] SRI LANKA: The ICRC calls for exceptional precautionary measures to minimize further bloodshed in “no-fire [...]

We’re Getting Green for Earth Day and Beyond

Happy Earth Day from Red Cross National Headquarters! This is Lesly in the Communications Department, and in addition to my everyday work here, I am a founding member of the Red Cross Green Team. We’re a group with people from all departments who came together last year to look at how we could make the [...]