We’ve been impressed and thankful for the incredible response from all of you regarding our Holiday Mail for Heroes program! Yesterday marked the close of the mail-in period – the mailbox will remain open for cards still trickling in, but cards sent from here on out will not be accepted.
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We speak with Madeleen Helmer, the head of the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Center in the Netherlands, about the impact of climate change on vulnerable people.
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Edit (12/07/09): The event is now over, and they did it! Many thanks to the fans of True Blood for winning a $10,000 donation from HBO to the American Red Cross! — Scared of needles? This is your big chance to donate blood without them. Do it virtually if you have a Twitter account. HBO [...]
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We’ve noticed an uptick in the number of local newspapers reporting home fires this week, so I checked to see if our local Red Cross Twitter feeds are also seeing fires: redcrossdenver: 2day Red Cross responded to Lakewood single family fire displaced 2 adults. Red Cross provided clothing, lodging, a tote, and comfort kit. stlredcross: [...]
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Today, the American Red Cross joined with our partners – United Nations Foundation, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UNICEF and the World Health Organization – to announce a remarkable achievement. In less than a decade, we saved an estimated 4.3 million children. We did so by vaccinating nearly 700 million children against [...]
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You’ve seen our new Holiday Giving catalog. When we say that you can “save the day” with these gifts, it means that your donation translates into something meaningful for someone on the other side – a disaster victim, a deployed soldier, or even a child in a developing country. The Red Cross serves as the intermediary between you and those who need help.
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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. It’s a non-comprehensive sampling of the larger and/or more intriguing aspects of our global work… [The place names link to maps so that you can get a quick idea [...]
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CPR: CPR saves cat after home fire in Omaha [Contact your local chapter to sign up for Pet CPR and First Aid courses] World AIDS Day: December 1 is World AIDS Day. Twitter is turning #RED, Red Cross is helping on the ground [More about Red Cross HIV/AIDS programs around the world] Holiday Giving: Holiday [...]
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