rebekahcain: Monday starts our first hurricane season in New Orleans. got some preparedness info from Red Cross last night – including evac maps. [way to be prepared Rebekah!] hollyhalvorsen: Reading the paper the American Red Cross gave me on how to load up on my iron levels in order to donate. Hooray, june5th [we're [...]
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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.] ZIMBABWE: The cholera count keeps ticking closer and closer to 100,000. The Zimbabwe [...]
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Thanks to each of you for supporting the Red Cross with your votes during the Bullseye Gives campaign. Over two weeks you all voted for Red Cross more than 75,000 times, which means you earned $793,942. This donation will support all of our services. Did you know that every 24 hours: Red Cross volunteers help [...]
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This post is written by Michelle Risinger, a Red Cross Service to the Armed Forces worker who is deployed in Tikrit, Iraq I hope you had a relaxing Memorial Day of family and pasta salad and sunshine. For actually being in a war zone, I had an extremely uneventful day of remembrance, but I did [...]
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-By Bob Wade; Milwaukee DAT night team Team Leader/Supervisor-ARC of SE WI-Milwaukee, WI (Edited by Gayle Hemmy) July 1st, 2007: What a wild night this one was. Buckle your seat belts for this is going to be a long one and one of the most incredible and amazing nights of my career with the Red [...]
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On this day in 1881 the American Red Cross was established by Clara Barton. That makes us 128 years old! History.com has a nice video piece about our founder in honor of our birthday:
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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: Hostilities have now been declared over, but 250,000 people are [...]
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I just checked how the American Red Cross is doing in Target’s “Bullseye Gives” Facebook challenge—and thanks to you, we’ve received more than 45,000 votes. That’s more than 45,000 life-changing gifts. Watch our video telling the human story of how we have and will put your votes to work. Then make sure to submit your [...]
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Are you CPR/AED trained? Need to brush up? I’ve got something cool to show you! June 1-7 is National CPR/AED Awareness Week. For the first time, we have an event tool that will let you find CPR/AED classes and other events near you. You know we’re already partial to maps around here, so pardon the [...]
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A big happy birthday to the Canadian Red Cross today. They’re turning 100 years old. 1-0-Oh! Canada
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