What We’re Reading

Our favorite chapter blog posts from this week.

Need for blood doesn’t take a snow day

The need for blood does not take a snow day.

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.

Blood Donor Tweets

We thought you’d like to see what some of your fellow donors are tweeting about giving blood.

A Step to Preparedness: Giving Blood

We’ve often talked about our 3 steps to preparedness: Get a Kit, Make a Plan, and Be Informed. These steps go a long way towards keeping you and your family safe, but there’s another step that you can take to help keep your entire community safe: Give Blood.

No Borders on BBQs

Author Katheryn Wolfe is an American Red Cross worker in Iraq with our Service to the Armed Forces program.

We’re not all bad news and blood

I continue to be surprised and usually amused by the different impressions that people have of the Red Cross.

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. It’s a non-comprehensive sampling of the larger and/or more intriguing aspects of our global work… BRAZIL: The worst mudslides in 40 years left many people in isolated areas unable [...]

Piper the Puppy

Put your name on Piper’s paw pad and know that your Piper will bring comfort when he’s handed out to a child burned out of her home.

My 4 year old describes it, I draw it

A few photos we’ve recently seen on Flickr.