Please stay tuned to the Disaster Online Newsroom for all Red Cross related swine flu information.
Please also stay tuned to redcross.org
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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!
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We’re all over it!
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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, and my [...]
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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 Row Row Your [...]
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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 (that’s ringing the [...]
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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. Take part [...]
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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.
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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 zone,” calling [...]
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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 [...]
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